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“The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.”

Artist Style Labor Comparison Deliberate Alchemist

Author:William Butler Yeats

“An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.”

Men Years May Art Done Whole Shows Artist Understanding Half One Day Paper Draws Labor Careful Pens Sheets Small Things Great Work Great Power Whole Year

Author:Albrecht Durer

“An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation”

Artist Creation Essentials Labor Portions Supplication Invocation

Book:The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

Source: The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World

“I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.”

Art Said Two Ends Artist Found Force Answers Middle Effects Labor Distinguished Art Love

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“The true artist can only labor con amore.”

Art Artist Labor True Artists

Author:Victor Hugo

“Excellence in art is to be attained only by active effort, and not by passive impressions; by the manly overcoming of difficulties, by patient struggle against adverse circumstance, by the thrifty use of moderate opportunities. The great artists were not rocked and dandled into eminence, but they attained to it by that course of labor and discipline which no man need go to Rome or Paris or London to enter upon.”