Best artist & mediums Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.”

Way Done Jobs Film Artist Actors Opportunity Becoming Hollywood Mediums Affected Good Job Cables Recessions Robust Plums Film Actors

Author:Omari Hardwick

“Personal style, be it that of Michelangelo, or that of Tintoretto... has always been that peculiar personal rapport which has developed between an artist and his medium.”

Artist Style Mediums Peculiar Personal Style Rapport

Book:The Shape of Content

Source: The Shape of Content

“For artists diving into a new technology, it is a triple short-cut to mastery: you get a free ride on the novelty of the medium; there are no previous masters to surpass; and after a few weeks, you are the master. Try that with the violin.”

Trying Artist Technology Cutting Week Masters Mediums Mastery Novelty Violin New Technology Diving Short Cuts

Author:Stewart Brand

“Artists are perennially implored to consider 'the limitations of the medium.' Whoever invented this expression exaggerated the limitations of the English language. We are not concerned with what effects cannot be produced with our materials.”

Artist Language Effects Expression Materials Concerned Mediums Limitation English Language Exaggerated

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.”

Artist Intelligent Technique Mediums

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“For the artist who practises photography, capturing the image is learning how to sketch on some medium, but is only half the challenge; learning how to print is applying a subjective pallet to that sketch, and completes the creative process.”

Artist Process Challenges Half Creative Photography Mediums Print Creative Process Subjective Practise Methodology Pallets

Author:David Travis

“The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.”

Real Dream Purpose Artist Loss Personality Mediums Disturbance Breadth

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Photography is unlike any other art form. In the other arts there is always a continuous interplay between the artist and his art. He has the painting or sculpture before him. What we have tried to do is to provide a medium for "artistic expression" to anyone with only a reasonable amount of time. By giving him a camera system with which he need only control his selection of focus, composition and lighting, we free him to select the moment and to criticize immediately what he has done. We enable him to see what else he wants to do on the basis of what he has just learned.”

“I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into my drag from every detail of the costume, makeup and hair to my performance, the way I speak or even stand.”

Way Artist Speak Hair Performances Paint Details Mediums Makeup Drag Costumes Clay

Author:Manila Luzon

“Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them.”

Firsts Artist Particular Materials Tools Technique Mediums Knowledgeable

Author:Freeman Patterson

“The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.”

“Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself.”

Men Mean Art Ideas Care Artist Ability Scene Fellows Objectives Mediums Permanent One Man Pins Symbolism Reproduction Good Art Selective

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.”

Artist Motivation Song Remains Mediums Prime

Book:Viva la poesia

Source: Viva la poesia

“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

“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.”

“It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.”

Ends America Artist Effort Adventure Perfection Thirds Strive China Mediums Over It Gaps Leap Imperfect Unfinished Columbus Superhuman Predetermined

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

“There are dance artists, painting artists and writing artists. Authors are writing artists. You can practice art in whatever medium you choose, and words are mine.”

Writing Art Artist Practice Mines Painting Mediums You Choose

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.”

Happens Artist Television Mediums Businessman

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“Allowing for exceptions, there is still one basic difference between the traditional arts and the mass-media arts: in the traditional arts, the artist grows; in a mass medium, the artist decays profitably.”

Art Stills Artist Grows Differences Media Mass Traditional Mediums Exception Allowing Decay Mass Media

Author:Pauline Kael

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