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“There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.”

Way Writing School Artist Language Movement Painting Poet Novelists Irritating Appreciative Allegory

Author:A. S. Byatt

“If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.”

Ifs Moments Artist Movement Succeed Impression Accomplishment Conventional Suspended

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell

“The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.”

Men Way Form Artist Movement Emotional Strange Shapes Emotional Life Shape Of Things

Author:Graham Collier

“We are like artists by nature, constantly we're trying to add beauty to movements.”

Trying Artist Movement Add Mma

Author:Renzo Gracie

“A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'”

Want Artist Voice Movement Add Size Substance

Author:Kumi Naidoo

“Poverty when coupled with creativeness is usually free of frustration. This is true of the poor artisan skilled in his trade and of the poor writer, artist, and scientist in the full possession of creative powers. Nothing so bolsters our self-confidence and reconciles us with ourselves as the continuous ability to create; to see things grow and develop under our hand, day in, day out. The decline of handicrafts in modern times is perhaps one of the causes for the rise of frustration and the increased susceptibility of the individual to mass movements.”

Source: THE TRUE BELIEVER

“For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.”

Men Giving Use Artist Worry Movement Equal Survival Artistic Damn Things To Do Fancy One Man Utility Supposing Supposing That Better Things To Do

Book:The good word and other words

Source: The good word and other words

“And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.”

Thinking Men Persons Artist Can Do Modern Movement Ought One Man

Book:Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

“Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.”

Source: Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

“Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us.”

I Can Ideas Hands Together Used Artist Steps Wonderful Movement Absolutes Extraordinary All Time Awe Mastery Precise Fluid Every Step True Artists

Author:Martin Scorsese

“media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and they turn to ashes in a short time. Some degree of time and obscurity is often very necessary to artists.”

Art Artist Turns Grows Chance Media Movement Degrees Destructive Ashes Exhausted Publicity Obscurity Short Time Saturation

Author:Joyce Johnson