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“I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that... but that's what it did.”

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Author:Edward Ruscha

“Quentin Tarantino is a hip-hop artist. I told him, "You're hip-hop!" You keep seeing surprises, and a clip here and there, because Quentin is hip-hop. A hip-hop artist will drop a single, leak something over here, and drop something over there 'cause he knows it's hot. He's on the spot with the way he does things.”

Knows Way Doe Artist Causes Seeing Hot Surprise Hip Hop Spots Hips Hops Here And There Leaks Clip Quentin Tarantino Hip Hop Artist

Author:Jamie Foxx

“Perhaps art can help us to look beyond the immediate beauty with all its puzzles, and to glimpse that new creation which makes sense not only of beauty but of the world as a whole, and ourselves within it ... The artist can then join forces with those who work for justice and those who struggle for redemptive relationships, and together encourage and sustain those who are reaching out for a genuine, redemptive spirituality.”

World Looks Art Whole Helping Together Artist Spirituality Force Justice Struggle Seeing Creation Genuine Invisible Make Sense Visible Reaching Reach Out Puzzles Glimpse

Author:N. T. Wright

“Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular are good at seeing how the pieces come together. I experienced this myself by trying to learn to draw.”

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Author:Daniel H. Pink

“Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.”

Way Artist Natural Seeing Influence Perspective Accepted Formulas

Author:Graham Collier

“Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.”

Together Artist Seeing Intense Objectives Zone Subjective Fuse

Author:Burton Silverman

“My notion about any artist is that we honor him best by reading him, by playing his music, by seeing his plays or by looking at his pictures. We don't need to fall all over ourselves with adjectives and epithets. Let's play him more.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“The role of the artist is like that of an explorer and a teacher - a teacher of seeing. No one is more capable of conveying this enlightenment than the artist.”

Artist Roles Teacher Seeing Teaching Capable Enlightenment Explorers Conveying

Author:Ken Danby

“Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.”

Body Artist Opportunity Seeing Capable Models Mature

Author:Philip Pearlstein

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”

Art Spirit Artist Vision Seeing Appearing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can learn a lot from children because they see things new every day. That's the beauty of what you want to achieve as an artist - seeing things in a different way. Kids are constantly saying things that are funny and surprising and their observations are just... you know, they're like little artists themselves.”

Knows Way Want Children Littles Different Kids Artist Seeing Achieve What You Want Observation Different Ways Surprising

Author:Tim Burton

“Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.”

Mean Eye Artist Ability Seeing Being An Artist

Author:Keariene Muizz