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“You need to know what makes artists tick. Having been through the process myself as a musician, since I was an early teen, gave me an advantage - understanding them from their point of view, because it's about them, it's not about you - it's their vision and what they're capable of achieving, and you're the conduit.”

Knows Needs Artist Process Understanding Views Vision Achieve Musician Capable Advantage Point Of View Tick

Author:Tommy Mottola

“Among those born into chaos, some will imagine an order and become scientists; a few will recognize the chaos and become abstract artists; most others will turn to faith for understanding; and the rest will become lost souls.”

Soul Artist Order Turns Lost Understanding Born Imagine Scientist Chaos Abstract Lost Souls

Author:Robert Breault

“Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?”

Years Artist Understanding Week Months Cost Reflection Understood Flash Dilettantes

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“By translating their inner turmoil or understanding into art, artists challenge the accepted notions of reality and create new ones.”

Art Reality Artist Understanding Challenges Notion Accepted Translate Turmoil

Book:The Essential Crazy Wisdom

Source: The Essential Crazy Wisdom

“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.”

Should Artist Understanding Greater Students Ambition Fellows Painter Homage Fickle

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.”

Artist Understanding Direct Observation

Author:Robert Genn

“Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.”

Needs Doe Artist Order Understanding Sitting Not Sure

Author:Sara Genn

“Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.”

People Needs Artist Understanding Sides Born Business Creative Scary Familiar Creative People

Author:Adam Leipzig

“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

“Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.”

World Mean War Country Artist Culture Asks Understanding Moral Economy Identity Amount Europe Importance War Of The Worlds Germany Massive Strongest Berlin Second World War

Author:Cate Blanchett

“The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.”

Mean Feelings Artist Understanding Appeals Application

Book:Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

Source: Kindred spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American landscape

“An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.”

Men Years May Art Done Whole Shows Artist Understanding Half One Day Paper Draws Labor Careful Pens Sheets Small Things Great Work Great Power Whole Year

Author:Albrecht Durer