“I find that it is important to work slowly. Anyone who looks at such a canvas will follow the same path the artist took, and he will experience that it is the path which counts more than the outcome of it, and that the route taken has been the most interesting part.” LooksHas BeensImportantArtistInterestingPathTakenOutcomesCanvasRoutesMost Interesting Author:Georges Braque
“The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.” ProblemArtistPathCrossesFoundationStartingContemporaryArtisticDevelopingSoil Book:Asger Jorn Source: Asger Jorn
“Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.” ArtistMemoriesPathJourneyGuides Author:Nick Bantock
“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.” ArtRealCountryArtistWaitingPathCarForgottenTrackGloriousCanvasObedient Author:A. Y. Jackson
“The eager or dutiful persons who subject themselves to these tidal waves of the classics and the moderns find everything wonderful in an absent-minded way. The wonder washes over them rather than into them, and one of its effects is to make anything shocking or odd suddenly interesting enough to gain a month's celebrity. And so another by-product of our come-one, come-all policy is the tendency to reward cleverness, not art, and to put one more hurdle in the path of the truly original artist.” WayPersonsArtEnoughArtistInterestingWonderPathWonderfulSubjectsEffectsPolicyProductsMonthsGainsOriginalsRewardsWaveTendenciesOddShockingAbsentClevernessHurdleTidal WavesAbsent Minded Author:Jacques Barzun
“Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself.” ArtistPathInfluenceDevelopmentBeing TrueImitationEmulation Author:Ken Danby
“I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.” WantArtistMy OwnPathDecidedPopsNostalgiaIconsMarginalizedYesteryear Author:Thomas F. Wilson
“I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.” ThinkingWayFeelsArtistCareersPathTakenOur LivesRegretLooking BackMournRoad Not Taken Author:Liz Garbus
“Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.” ThinkingKnowsWellsLittlesTwoDifferentTodayArtistWishGoalDecisionAttentionPathHonestComfortCrowdsBetter LifeDivergentTrue ArtistsDifferent PathsWell Wishes Author:Tennessee Williams