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“It seemed like an impossible task to do full justice to all Luther classics. And yet these landmark artists have done just that. Memorable performances of wonderful songs that ensure Luther's legacy will live on forever.”

Done Artist Song Justice Forever Wonderful Impossible Tasks Performances Legacy Memorable Impossibility Luther Landmarks

Author:Clive Davis

“The task of the artist is to make the human being uncomfortable.”

Humans Purpose Artist Human Beings Tasks Uncomfortable

Book:Lucian Freud

Source: Lucian Freud

“There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself.”

Beautiful Artist Design Shapes Tasks Composition Arrangements Conform

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“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

“When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.”

Made Inspiration Artist Awareness Return Creating Conscious Tasks Connections Surroundings Activate Conscious Awareness

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“It is the specialist's task to talk about means, about centimeters. An artist's task is to talk about the goal, about kilometers, thousands of kilometers. The organizing role of art consists of infecting the reader, of arousing him with pathos or irony -- the cathode and anode in literature. But irony that is measured in centimeters is pathetic, and centimeter-sized pathos is ridiculous. No one can be carried away by it. To stir the reader, the artist must speak not of means but of ends, of the great goal toward which mankind is moving.”

Inspirational Mean Art Ends Moving Artist Literature Speak Goal Roles Mankind Reader Tasks Ridiculous Irony Pathetic Specialists Carried Away Pathos

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“If within the last century art conceived as an autonomous activity has come to be invested with an unprecedented stature - the nearest thing to a sacramental human activity acknowledged by secular society - it is because one of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there.”

Ifs Humans Persons Art Lasts Artist Consciousness Century Dangerous Position Activity Tasks Secular Frontiers Unprecedented Stature Human Activity Autonomous Secular Society

Author:Susan Sontag