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“To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.”

Wells Artist Goal Weak Ultimate Departure Ultimate Goal

Author:Osamu Dazai

“When creativity has become your habit; when you've learned to manage time, resources, expectations, and the demands of others; when you understand the value and place of validation, continuity, and purity of purpose, then you're on the way to an artist's ultimate goal; the achievement of mastery.”

Way Purpose Artist Values Goal Creativity Habit Demand Achievement Expectations Resources Ultimate Manage Purity Mastery Continuity Validation Ultimate Goal

Author:Twyla Tharp

“At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.”

Mean Artist Perfection Ultimate Disaster Reminders Perfectionism Fussing

Book:A Painter of Our Time

Source: A Painter of Our Time

“An artist in my view is always afraid of extremists; he is always afraid of those who claim to have found the ultimate solution to any question.”

Art Artist Found Views Solutions Ultimate Claims Extremist

Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“Water and stones. Those are the unpromising ingredients of two very different endeavors... painting, because artists' pigments are made from fluids... mixed together with powdered stones to give color... and the other is alchemy, the stone the ultimate goal.”

Giving Made Two Different Together Artist Goal Water Color Painting Materials Stones Ultimate Ingredients Endeavor Fluid Alchemy Ultimate Goal Pigment

Author:James Elkins

“No amount of technical knowledge and competence is, of itself, sufficient to make a craftperson into an artist. That requires caring - passionate caring about ultimate things.”

Artist Passion Amount Ultimate Passionate Caring Sufficient Competence Self Sufficient Technical Knowledge

Author:Freeman Patterson