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“Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.”

Hard Feelings Artist Father Felt Careers Died Who I Am Hard Times Having A Hard Time

Author:Kiki Smith

“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.”

Giving Trying Art I Can Remember Artist Felt Difficult Fascination Yeats

Author:Lucian Freud

“The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.”

Way Should Firsts Made Artist Felt Simple Understood Simplicity Details Spectators Superfluous Elimination Beholder Motifs Simple Ways

Author:Alfred Sisley

“The greatest artist is one who expresses what is felt by everybody.”

Artist Felt Emotion

Author:Anagarika Govinda

“I felt landscapes would sell more readily, and not being equipped psychologically to be a teacher or commercial artist, that was important.”

Important Artist Felt Teacher Sells Selling Landscape

Author:E. J. Hughes

“There is no substitute for skill. It is the priceless possession of every great artist in every field of endeavor. It is instinctly felt by an audience and is reflected in the superiority of his work”

Artist Felt Audience Fields Skills Possession Substitutes Endeavor Superiority Great Art Priceless Great Artist

Author:Paul LePaul

“As a child, I saw this beautiful film, Dracula's Daughter, and it was with Gloria Holden and was a sequel to the original Dracula. It was all about this beautiful daughter of Dracula who was an artist in London, and she felt drinking blood was a curse. It had beautiful, sensitive scenes in it, and that film mesmerized me. It established to me what vampires werethese elegant, tragic, sensitive people. I was really just going with that feeling when writing Interview With the Vampire. I didn't do a lot of research.”

“Why was the painting made? What ideas of the artist can we sense? Can the personality and sensitivity of the artist be felt when studying the work? What is the artist telling us about his or her feelings about the subject? What response do I get from the message of the artist? Do I know the artist better because of the painting?”

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Author:Gerald Brommer

“I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.”

Way Believe Play Feelings Form Artist Courses I Believe Felt Emotion Productive Suspects Playing Around

Author:Carter Ratcliff

“I wanted my friends in the video because to leave a hard place, you need the support of your loved ones. My friends have always done that for me. I had my best girlfriends there, my brother, my guy friends who are like brothers to me and my team who's had my back through my journey. My lead guy was a good friend of mine and a talented artist named Quincy. He's such a cool guy and I felt he would be perfect for the video along with a cameo from Don Benjamin.”

“Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.”

Character Artist Fun Felt Enjoy Drawing Having Fun Jerry Larks

Author:Joe Shuster

“I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS.”

Children Bigs Artist Fighting Felt Alive Delight Aids Checks My Children Great Art Great Artist

Author:Elizabeth Taylor

“There were times in my career ... when I felt like a trapeze artist doing dangerous somersaults without a net underneath. When you execute those somersaults flawlessly, the audience feels the same sense of triumph the performer does.”

Feels Doe Artist Felt Careers Audience Dangerous Triumph Performers Trapeze Trapeze Artists

Author:Beverly Sills

“You are always looking for already-felt emotions, just as you like to get an old pair of trousers back from the cleaners, which seem new when you don't look too closely. Artists are cleaners, don't let yourself be taken in by them. True modern works of art are made not by artists but quite simply by men.”

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Author:Francis Picabia

“Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didnt read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.”

World Humans Film Artist Felt Acting Son Months Needed Scripts Quitting Anarchy

Author:Charlie Hunnam

“Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.”

Years Two Artist Felt Stupid Grew My Favorite Reactions Josh Favorite Artist

Author:Leo Fitzpatrick

“I felt most beautiful on the red carpet in Givenchys sheer lace dress at a dinner hosted by Givenchy in honor of Marina Abramovich at the closing of her Museum of Modern Art retrospective, The Artist is Present, in 2010. It was the first time I had been dressed for an event, and everybody just fell in love with the dress.”

Firsts Art Beautiful Artist Felt Modern Events Honor First Time Red Dresses Dinner Museums Sheer Carpet Closing Red Carpet Lace Modern Art Retrospective Givenchy

Author:Joan Smalls

“I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.”

Important Artist Felt Feminist Honored Veins

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“The incomparable Michael Jackson has made a bigger impact on music than any other artist in the history of music. He was magic. He was what we all strive to be. He will always be the King of Pop! Life is not about how many breaths you take, but about how many moments in life that take your breath away. For anyone who has ever seen, felt or heard his art, we are all honored to have been alive in this generation to experience the magic of Michael Jackson. I love you, Michael.”

Has Beens Art Made Moments Life Is Artist Felt Alive Generations Magic Heard Love You Kings Bigger Breaths Impact Strive Pops Honored This Generation Incomparable History Of Music

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I felt about life and the way I felt about my children was so deep and profound. It was the first time I'd felt anything like that. I knew as an artist that it was going to make a huge difference in everything that I did.”

Way Firsts Children Artist Felt Differences Huge First Time Profound My Children

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, "Give me a break!"”

“I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.”

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Author:Will Sheff

“Sometimes I think I shouldn't explain much about my work because people will just feel what they feel when they see it. They'll love it or hate it or enjoy it on their own, like how I've looked at abstract paintings of other artists and cried or felt happy because I've felt, "Wow, I've lived that, I've understood that."”

People Thinking Feels Sometimes Artist Hate Felt Enjoy Painting Understood Abstract Wow Cried Abstract Painting

Author:Jose Parla

“Sometimes I'm just a little bit too honest. There was some things that were going on behind the scenes that I didn't like because it's not what hip-hop is about. Hip-hop is about honesty and it's about being real to the people, and I kinda felt like there's some instances where some artists aren't 100% honest with the people. Their integrity is lacking sometimes. And sometimes it comes out.”

People Littles Real Sometimes Artist Felt Bits Behinds Honest Honesty Integrity Scene Little Bit Hip Hop Instance Hips Hops Being Real Lacking Behind The Scenes

Author:Wale

“It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.”

“The highest thing people can say about an artist is, 'You know, I felt he or she was singing right to me.' If you've got the goods, and you're honest, that's where the thrill comes in, because of the urgency of the people really feeling what they feel. It's right there.”

People Ifs Knows Feels Feelings Artist Felt Honest Highest Singing Goods Thrill Urgency

Author:Steve Ross

“I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.”

Beautiful Artist Felt Seeing Plant Photographer Photograph Remembered Dramatic Compelled Power Plants Metallic Turbines

Author:John Sexton

“I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.”

People Thinking Should Firsts Artist Felt Collaborating

Author:Missy Elliot

“A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.”

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Author:Shepard Fairey

“I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down goes Gertrude, down goes Jean Cocteau, down goes André Gide.”

Wanted Artist Felt Shots Pops Pot Clay Pipe Gertrude

Book:Conversations with Paul Bowles

Source: Conversations with Paul Bowles

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