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“The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.”

Able Artist Successful Wise Strange Tasks Ducks Solitary Venture Eccentric Confinement Solitary Confinement

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.”

May Art Artist Rooms Business Strange Bed Bedfellows Strange Bedfellows

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.”

Men Way Form Artist Movement Emotional Strange Shapes Emotional Life Shape Of Things

Author:Graham Collier

“It took time for the church to come to terms with the ignominy of the cross. Church fathers forbade its depiction in art until the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine.... Now, though, the symbol is everywhere: artists beat gold into the shape of the Roman execution device, baseball players cross themselves before batting, and cancy confectioners even make chocolate crosses for the faithful to eat during Holy Week. Strange as it may seem, Christianity has become a religion of the cross--the gallows, the electric chair, the gas chamber, in modern terms.”

“It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.”

Has Beens Seems Artist Fear Strange Painting Majors Factors Blank Canvas Blank Canvas

Author:David Luiz

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio.”

People Knows Artist Rocks Strange Listening Normal Radio Rock Music

Author:Gilberto Hernandez

“The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.”

Way Artist Creative Strange Pursue Mysterious Innocence Unconscious Mysterious Ways

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers