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“An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.”

Giving Jobs Faces Artist Answers Fronts Mirrors Your Face

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“The purer the artist's 'mirror' is, the more true reality reflects in it. Overseeing the historical culture of art, we must conclude that the mirror only slowly is purified. Time producing this purifying shows a gradual, more constant and objective image of reality.”

Art Shows Reality Artist Culture Mirrors Constant Historical Objectives Purifying True Reality Overseeing

Book:The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

Source: The new art--the new life: the collected writings of Piet Mondrian

“In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.”

Artist Identity Paper Mirrors Over You

Author:Rex Brandt

“It is not the job of art to mirror. Images reflected in a mirror appear to us in reverse. An artist's responsibility is to reveal consciousness; to produce a human document.”

Humans Art Jobs Artist Consciousness Responsibility Produce Mirrors Reverse Documents Mirror Image

Book:Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery

Source: Squeak Carnwath, recent paintings: September 8-October 8, 1994, John Berggruen Gallery

“The good bodybuilders have the same mind ... that a sculptor has. If you analyze it, you look in the mirror and you say, okay, I need a bit more deltoids ... so that the proportion's right, and ... you exercise and put those deltoids on, whereas an artist would just slap on some clay on each side.”

Ifs Needs Mind Looks Artist Bits Sides Exercise Okay Mirrors Proportion Clay Slap Sculptors Bodybuilder

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.”

Should Play Artist Mirrors Satisfied

Author:Jules Breton

“A muse can be a mirror: a reflection of the artist's desires, anxieties, dreams and needs.”

Needs Dream Desire Artist Anxiety Reflection Mirrors Muse

Author:Vince Aletti

“the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.”

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Book:Winter's Tales

Source: Winter's Tales