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“The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.”

Able Artist Function Adversity Notion Nine Atmosphere Indifference Nonsense Misunderstanding Hostility

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.”

Art Reality Artist Understanding Challenges Notion Accepted Translate Turmoil

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.”

Artist Notion Disputes

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.”

Believe Ideas Artist Notion Extremes Believer Good Work

Author:Wayne Thiebaud

“My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don't need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let's play him more.”

Needs Play Artist Fall Reading Seeing Honor Notion Adjectives Epithet

Author:Jacques Barzun

“The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.”

People Ifs Way Years Mean Sometimes Running Artist Wonder Talent Weapons Notion Starvation Bourgeoisie Subsistence

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.”

Ifs Feels Made Artist Term Modern Ideals Perfection Importance Notion Confusion Painter Masterpiece Qualms Qualms About

Author:Andre Malraux

“I want you to adore the Universe, to be easily delighted, but to be prompt as well with impatience with those artists who offend your own deep notions of what the Universe is or should be. ‘This above all ...’”

Want Should Wells Artist Universe Notion I Want You Adore Impatience Delighted Prompts

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“The notion that the great artist requires a great patron has been around since the Pharaohs. That the born patron also needs an artist to patronize is a less-studied phenomenon.”

Needs Has Beens Artist Born Notion Phenomenon Great Art Great Artist Patron Pharaohs

Book:Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album

Source: Nutcracker: Money, Madness, Murder: A Family Album

“If you can't fail then how can you possible develop as a communicator or as a creator of anything? We are locked into a deeply unhealthy notion that somehow you've got to succeed all the time. An appalling notion. Any painter or writer will tell you that that is no way to proceed. One of the things that will kill off a decent actor, especially a young actor early on and they will never recover from it, is too much success. It's disastrous. You stop being criticized, therefore you stop challenging yourself. You then can't afford to fail because there's too far to fall.”

Ifs Way Young Artist Fall Actors Challenges Too Much Failing Succeed Notion Creator Painter Decent Locked Success And Failure Unhealthy Young Actors Communicators Challenge Yourself

Author:Emma Thompson