“The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).” ArtistEnergyProcessPaintingDrawingReleaseRemarksProceduresPrintmaking Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
“To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.” MindSoulBodyArtistAchieveWillingEnlightenmentReleaseEcstasyPerformersBeing An Artist Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
“We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.” StillsArtistWaterImaginationCommonOne ThingDangerousLoversPeriodsRiversReleaseDryInternalsSpellsFarmersPsychicsCarelessDroughtDormantBlooming Book:The solace of open spaces Source: The solace of open spaces
“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.” IfsGivingYearsTwoTodayArtistForgetMillionsGoneFiveFourCoupleSellsReleaseFive YearsCopiesForget You Author:George Jones