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“Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.”

Giving Has Beens Film Form Artist Acting Pure Film Acting

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“In this same tradition, beauty is inextricably bound up with the principles of order and harmony believed to underlie the cosmos. Artists in the Classical tradition, inspired by Platonic idealism, strove to create images that represented not the world of particulars-with all its defects-but an ideal image conceived in the mind, which was taken as representing some absolute, pure, ideal form of which all particular, material forms are but a mere shadow.”

World Mind Form Artist Order Beauty Principles Taken Particular Materials Pure Shadow Ideals Tradition Absolutes Harmony Mere Inspired Bounds Cosmos Idealism Defects Representing Platonic

Author:John Walford

“Mankind is the grandest and surest artist of all, and history as it clarifies is, in pure fact, an artistic process, a creation in its fullness of the beautiful soul.”

Soul Facts Beautiful Artist Process Mankind Creation Pure Artistic Fullness Beautiful Soul Artistic Process

Book:The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

Source: The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses

“Complete honesty has nothing to do with 'purity' or naivety. The full truth is unattainable to naivety, and the completely honest artist is not pure in heart.”

Heart Truth Artist Honest Honesty Truth Is Pure Purity Unattainable Naivety Complete Honesty

Book:Art and Culture: Critical Essays

Source: Art and Culture: Critical Essays

“In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.”

Children Artist Pure Innocence True Artists

Author:Lawren Harris

“Each person may see a fight in different ways... They can see more to a primal way. Others they can see in a pure artistic way... For me I see the pure artistic way, the way that a true martial artist can show his art.”

Way May Persons Art Different Shows Artist Fighting Pure Artistic Different Ways Martial Arts Mma Primal Martial Artist

Author:Roger Gracie

“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.”

Mind Done Facts Artist White Painting Pure Tradition Roots Empty Method Embrace Starting Flying Spots Emptiness Realising Strokes Brushes Penetrate Spontaneity Apparitions

Author:Antoni Tapies

“The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.”

Mind Eye Action Lying Artist White Pure Mere Worn Great Art Great Artist Uneasy Trimming White Lie Prevarication

Book:Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life

“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.”

Art Reason Political Artist Impossible Produce Pure Workers

Book:Some Versions of Pastoral

Source: Some Versions of Pastoral

“For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.”

Giving Able Artist Strong Divine Pure Give Me Goddess Greece Vigilant Hera

Author:Francois Mitterrand

“The poet's perspective of life, the musician's sense of harmony, the artist's eye of proportion and relationships ~ these are all shared by healers, especially the herbal healer who works with plants, which are the pure creative expression of nature and the healing process.”

Eye Artist Process Healing Creative Poet Expression Perspective Pure Musician Harmony Plant Proportion Healer Creative Expression Healing Process

Author:Michael Tierra

“There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons.”

Source: Collected Works: Do what you will