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“You see so many artists who are so talented end up living sad, empty lives. This industry takes so much out of you that without the accountability and leaving God in the center, you can be left so empty and void.”

Ends Artist Left Industry Empty Leaving Accountability Void Empty Life

Author:Stacie Orrico

“When I left school, I wanted to be an artist, specifically a painter.”

Wanted School Artist Left Painter

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“While the space for artists and curators has increased enormously, maybe, just maybe, that's left room for too many people calling themselves artists and curators who are simply not up to the term.”

People Artist Left Term Space Rooms Calling Curator

Author:Jerry Saltz

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“Computers are another tool for the creative artist - just as a flat or filbert brush is. But there was a time when I left a jar of medium open by my work station for that painterly smell.”

Artist Left Technology Creative Computer Tools Smell Mediums Flats Stations Brushes Jars Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:Donald Lambert

“They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.”

Artist Left Clothes

Author:Jock Sturges

“I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.”

Artist Left Causes Come Up Comic Superhero Unfinished

Author:Trina Robbins

“... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.”

Littles Matter Artist Left Goal Boat Fishing Shrinks Explorers Sanctify Fishing Boats

Book:Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence

Source: Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence

“Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.”

Art Sometimes Artist Left Speak Return Indifference Rome

Book:Six Months in Italy

Source: Six Months in Italy