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“The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.”

Should Artist Expression Strive Surface Storm Clouds

Author:Albert Pinkham Ryder

“As an artist you're looking for universal triggers. You want it both ways. You want it to have an immediate impact, and you want it to have deep meanings as well. I'm striving for both. But I hate it when people write things that sound like they've swallowed a f... dictionary.”

People Way Want Writing Wells Artist Hate Sound Universal I Hate Impact Critics Strive Triggers Dictionary Deep Meaning

Author:Damien Hirst

“Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.”

Way Art Care Artist Music Musician Strive Prosperity Take Care Riches True Artists

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.”

Dream Desire Artist Turns Achieve Havens Terrible Strive Hunger Obsession Greedy Juice

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.”

Artist Values Products Strive Aesthetic

Book:The letters of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The letters of Evelyn Waugh

“The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.”

Art Real Character Artist Alive Subjects Stress Strive Caricatures Portraiture Real Artists

Author:William Dobell

“Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create!”

Artist Passion Creativity Strive

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.”

Art Artist Highest Blind Instinct Strive Depth Following Appearance Artistic Lowest Strife

Book:Goethe on Art

Source: Goethe on Art

“It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One attempts by a superhuman effort to fill the gap, to leap over it, to finish it in another medium. And one creates a third and separate thing: 'Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China. But he discovered America.”

Ends America Artist Effort Adventure Perfection Thirds Strive China Mediums Over It Gaps Leap Imperfect Unfinished Columbus Superhuman Predetermined

Book:War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944

Source: War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944