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“The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.”

Reason Facts Artist Actors Agents

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.”

Men Should Reason Joy Artist Perfect Flower Masters Missions Accidents Painter Delusion No Reason Sentiments Puzzles Masterpiece Bud Philanthropist Alliteration

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.”

Reason Artist Passion Goal Equal Intention Good Work Tenacity Interruptions

Author:Odilon Redon

“Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.”

Mind Different Reason Artist Speak Prejudice Habitual Filters Cloudy

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .”

Art Reason Artist Mankind Impulse Idealism Sublime

Author:Richard Schmid

“We are accustomed to the artist scoundrel or specialist in vice, and unaccustomed to the creator in whom passion and reason and moral integrity hold in balance. But greatness of intellect and feeling, or soul and conduct - magnanimity, in short - does occur; it is not a myth for boy scouts, and its reality is important, if only to give us the true range of the term "human," which we so regularly define by its lower reaches.”

“The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.”

Reason Artist Special Elements Perception Opposites Impression Objectives Tendencies

Book:An Outline of Philosophy

Source: An Outline of Philosophy

“When a mother takes pictures of her children on the beach, she doesn't take herself for an artist; she does it for love, which is an excellent reason, from my point of view.”

Children Doe Reason Mother Artist Views Point Of View Beach Excellent

Author:Martin Parr

“The only people who are afraid of file sharing are the people whose albums are so dull presentation-wise that nobody cares about owning the actual finished product, and the people who have so little connection to their listeners that said listeners have no reason to care whether the artists they like are getting reimbursed for their efforts.”

People Littles Said Reason Care Artist Effort Wise Products Connections Albums Finished Dull No Reason Listeners Files Presentation Nobody Cares File Sharing

Author:John Darnielle

“The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.”

“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

“It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.”

People Way Writing Reason Seems Artist Sides Dangerous Poet Civilization Rhyme Abyss

Author:May Sarton