“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.” PeopleWritingYearsFirstsJobsArtistSongHalfFourClaimsStudiosSandwichesElevenWriting SongsSubwayHalf A YearProcessors Author:Frank Ocean
“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.” IfsTryingHeartKindMayDifferentSoulFacesArtistExamplePaintingMastersPerspectiveHundredClaimsAll KindsPainterWorking ItDisplayMasterpieceHeart And SoulDifferent Perspective Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.” ShouldArtArtistBreakAliveExpressionClaimsCamerasConventionsWornFreedom Of ExpressionWorn Out Author:Alvin Langdon Coburn
“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.” ArtArtistFoundViewsSolutionsUltimateClaimsExtremist Book:Conversations with Chinua Achebe Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe
“With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is so strong that it claims a newer and more exclusive field of deployment. Its first creation is the Artist himself, a new sort of person; the creative man.” PeopleMenFirstsPersonsArtistStrongSexCreativeWifeCreationFieldsPoetDramaThirdsClaimsInstinctRateVitalityExclusiveCourtshipDeployment Author:Wyndham Lewis
“Most works of art are effectively treated as commodities and most artists, even when they justly claim quite other intentions, areeffectively treated as a category of independent craftsmen or skilled workers producing a certain kind of marginal commodity.” KindArtArtistCertainClaimsIndependentIntentionWorkersTreatedWorks Of ArtCategoriesCommodityCraftsmanSkilled Workers Author:Raymond Williams
“Simply according artistic works the same protection as nonartistic works may not be sufficient to protect creativity. After all, the very essence of artistic expression is invention and artists necessarily draw on their own experience. But if the rules of liability are unclear, artists will not be able to know how much disguise is sufficient to protect their claims from the claims of those who may see themselves in the portrayals.” IfsKnowsMayAbleArtistResponsibilityCreativityKnow HowExpressionProtectSpeechDrawsEssenceConstitutionClaimsProtectionInventionArtisticSufficientDisguiseLiabilityArtistic ExpressionPortrayalUnclear Author:Irving Kaufman
“Creativity does not belong exclusively to professional artists and geniuses; it is the birthright of every single human being. Creativity is our common heritage. You don’t need to quit your job and move to Paris in order to lay claim to this heritage - all you have to do is clear some space in your life for whimsy, invention, sensory pleasure, and play. Most of all, you have to learn how to follow your curiosity more than your fear.” NeedsHumansDoePlayJobsMovingArtistOrderHuman BeingsSpacePleasureCommonCreativityClearGeniusClaimsLaysCuriosityQuittingInventionParisHeritageSensoryBirthrightWhimsyQuitting Your Job Author:Elizabeth Gilbert
“One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.” ArtistHouseFemaleArgumentWindowClaimsRecessionsProspectsFemale Artists Author:Jerry Saltz
“If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.” IfsMenArtistProveClaims Author:Will Rogers
“There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim.” ArtArtistLinesPhotographyStandardsClaimsPhotographerStudiosArtisticEtcDisplayApologyFranticAnnouncing Author:Gertrude Kasebier
“One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of the expert. There are experts who claim they cannot be fooled because they have an inner connection to an artist and can feel whether something is genuine or fake. I've heard experts say, on panels: When it comes to my period, or my painters, I cannot be fooled. And of course that's completely ridiculous.” WorldFeelsArtArtistCoursesHeardPeriodsAspectConnectionsClaimsRidiculousGenuinePainterFakeExpertsMetaphysicalFooledArt World Author:Daniel Kehlmann
“I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.” ThinkingWritingTryingMeanArtArtistMusicEventsClaimsAccessVersions Author:Thom Yorke
“They want to hold onto something they never had in the first place. Anybody who claims to have some interest in me as an individual artist or even as part of the Beatles has absolutely misunderstood everything I ever said if they can't see why I'm with Yoko. And if they can't see that, they don't see anything. They're just jacking off to - it could be anybody. Mick Jagger or somebody else. Let them go jack off to Mick Jagger, okay? I don't need it.” IfsWantNeedsFirstsSaidArtistIndividualInterestOkayClaimsMisunderstoodJaggerJacking Off Author:John Lennon
“We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.” WorldMindHandsMightArtistChanceTalkingAchievePoliticianClaimsMinistersPrimePrime MinisterBirthright Author:Stephen Fry