“I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.” IfsGivingArtistSongWorryRecordsWiseProduceMinesPerspectiveEasierStartingProductionsListenersNew Perspective Author:Greg Laswell
“The purpose of arts education is not to produce more artists, though that is a byproduct. The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society.” HumansArtRealPurposeArtistHuman BeingsSuccessfulProduceCapableProductiveFree SocietyArt EducationPurpose Of ArtProductive Life Author:Dana Gioia
“Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.” RunningArtistForceProduceWrestlingRunning Away Author:Rollo May
“I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.” ArtistProducePaintCommerce Author:Jack White
“In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.” FeelsHumansArtEndsArtistBitsProduceGoes OnAnxietyBalancedNeurosisBeing An ArtistImbalance Author:Beverly Pepper
“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.” HumansArtJobsArtistConsciousnessResponsibilityProduceMirrorsReverseDocumentsMirror 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 usual criticism of a novel about an artist is that, no matter how real he is as a man, he is not real to us as an artist, since we have to take on trust the works of art he produces.” MenArtRealMatterArtistNovelProduceCriticismWorks Of ArtUsual Author:Randall Jarrell
“The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.” ShouldArtIdeasArtistPiecesMagicProducePaintingInternalsSubmitVulgarDistrustSpectatorsIdentical Author:Samuel R. Delany
“To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.” ArtReasonPoliticalArtistImpossibleProducePureWorkers Book:Some Versions of Pastoral Source: Some Versions of Pastoral
“Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.” KnowsYearsLooksLittlesArtistHoursProduceAppearanceFavorsNeglected Author:Vanna Bonta
“The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.” YearsEndsArtistDifficultWaterExistenceFireGroupsTeamProduceProgramBoundsIncludingPainterMagazinesEncountersOur RelationshipVansConsultingMatchingObstinacy Author:Michel Seuphor
“other artists - poets, painters, sculptors, musicians - produce something which lives after them and enshrines their memories in positive evidences of their divine mission; but we, - we strut and fret our hour upon the stage, and then the curtain falls and all is darkness and silence.” ArtistFallActorsHoursMemoriesSilenceDarknessStageProduceDivinePoetMusicianEvidenceTheaterMissionsPainterCurtainsSculptors Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman