“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.” WayGivingHumansKindDoeArtSelfEyeArtistUnderstandingCommonSeeingInformationCreationActivityShapesFindingsInstrumentsInspiredEverydayArtisticEveryday LifeGreat ArtRefinedExaltedHuman ActivitySelf ContainedConceiving Book:Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye
“Music was my life...It was everything to me, even though I was in school majoring in English. I was still very focused on music and always finding ways to perform, so that was what set me up to want to become a recording artist.” WayWantStillsSchoolArtistFindingsFocused Author:John Legend
“I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.” WantArtHardArtistTermHoursMaterialsFindingsResearchVisualsDepartmentImpressProps Author:Cary Fukunaga
“Actually solving the puzzles in the book isn't going to improve anyone's writing, but "trying to solve the puzzle" is one way to think about what a lot of us - writers and other artists - do every day. Step one is to recognize the problem, step two is deciding what constraints you want to impose or respect, and step three is finding a pleasing/surprising/exciting solution.” ThinkingWayWantWritingTryingTwoBookProblemArtistThreeStepsFindingsSolutionsExcitingSolveOne WaySurprisingPuzzlesConstraints Author:Peter Turchi
“I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.” TryingArtistChallengesQualityRolesFocusInvolvedFindingsProductionsMediumsGet InvolvedIntriguingFormat Author:Brian J. White
“In America idea of freedom isn't actually about freedom. That's about power. The point of an artist is to find out what are the flavors that I must work with. Finding one's freedom is about surrendering to your helplessness.” IdeasAmericaArtistFindingsFlavorHelplessness Author:Chris Martin
“As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.” WantFeelsArtistInspireFindingsCreatingExciting Author:Mat Kearney
“As an independent artist it is so easy to get caught up in websites, social media, merchandise, when I am going to put out an EP, fining a producer, finding a studio to record in and you have to remember at the end of the day you should be writing music.” ShouldWritingEndsRememberArtistSocialEasyRecordsMediaFindingsIndependentCaughtStudiosSocial MediaProducersThe End Of The DayCaught UpWebsiteEasy To GetWriting MusicMerchandise Author:Tyler Hilton
“People tweet me all the time and tell me how much they love it, how they can't wait for the show to come back on, that they're addicted to the show. So that's really rewarding. As an artist, we're all looking for that connection to an audience and when you find people as diehard as our fans are - it's sort of like finding the holy grail.” PeopleShowsArtistWaitingAudienceFansHolyFindingsConnectionsTweetHoly GrailDiehard Author:Glen Mazzara
“Music is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts of life, I see that this is not the music business I came up in and I have to be very, very objective and detached and say, 'what's good about it and what's bad about it?' Mostly, I'm finding it good that it's not the same old music business, because the music business I came up in really didn't advance anything I was doing, and I don't think it was particularly kind to a lot of artists.” ThinkingLooksKindHardFactsArtistColdFindingsMusic IsObjectivesBad DayMusic BusinessFacts Of LifeDetachedSave MeOld Music Author:Phoebe Snow
“What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!” StillsCareFacesArtistCan DoLinesFindingsExcitingDon't CareI Don't CareYou Can Do ItBeing An Artist Author:Nikki Sixx
“A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a result of the creative impulse finding several means of expression. Probably an equivalent number are visual artists, woodworkers or compulsive liars.” ThinkingMayMeanArtistResultsNumbersCreativeExpressionFindingsMusicianCooksImpulseVisualsLiarsVisual ArtGood CookVisual ArtistCompulsive Liar Author:Steve Albini
“There's lots of R&B blogs that I like going on and it basically just names new music that isn't out and won't be out for a long time and stuff. It just gives you an insight on what's coming up next and finding out about new artists.” GivingLongArtistNextNamesStuffFindingsLong TimeInsightBlogsNew MusicNew Artists Author:Cher Lloyd
“One thing that's really pulled me in to helping artists create their album is that I get to help them tell a story. It's about the way you frame that story and finding the best way to tell that story.” WayHelpingStoriesArtistOne ThingFindingsAlbumsBest Way Author:Emily Lazar
“K. Dot was a kid who was trying to find himself in music, finding trends, um, bending towards - ready to bend towards what the industry was telling me to do and after you mature at a certain time in your life, you come into your own...your own niche, your own personality, not only as an artist but as a person.” TryingPersonsKidsArtistCertainReadyPersonalityIndustryFindingsMatureTrendsNicheDotsBending Author:Kendrick Lamar
“I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.” ThinkingWritingArtistVoiceFindingsUniqueHardestLearning How To Write Author:Morgan James
“My mother teaches high school English, and she's an artist and a poet and a sculptor, she's published twelve poetry books. I grew up in a household in Venezuela with living, breathing art installations that were the way that she used to express herself, a highly creative environment where ideas were celebrated, where artistic expression was celebrated. Seeing her as somebody who was always able to have a creative output - if she felt sad, she wrote a poem, if she felt happy, she made a sculpture - I think for me, there was an early interest in finding outlets for my passions.” IfsThinkingWayArtMadeBookIdeasAbleSchoolUsedMotherArtistPassionFeltInterestTeachCreativeEnvironmentSeeingPoetExpressionGrewFindingsGrew UpHigh SchoolArtisticBreathingTwelveHouseholdSculptureOutletsMy PassionSculptorsOutputVenezuelaArtistic ExpressionInstallationSchool English Author:Jason Silva
“Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.” IdeasJoyArtistFunWealthCareersDestinyTypeFindingsCreating Author:Queen Latifah
“When the artist finds himself he is lost. The fact that he has succeeded in never finding himself is regarded by Max Ernst as his only lasting achievement.” FactsArtistLostAchievementFindingsReflectionLastingSelf ReflectionMax Author:Max Ernst
“This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.” WorldHumansDoeMatterArtistHuman BeingsPositionFindingsComplexesGenreComplexityVillainOriginalityConsistentlyFacetsMultiplicityOrigin Of LifeComplexity Of Human Author:Toni Morrison
“Most artists are brought to their vocation when their own nascent gifts are awakened by the work of a master. That is to say, most artists are converted to art by art itself. Finding one's voice isn't just an emptying and purifying oneself of the words of others but an adopting and embracing of filiations, communities, and discourses. Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos. Any artist knows these truths, no matter how deeply he or she submerges that knowing.” KnowsDoeArtMatterInspirationArtistVoiceCommunityMemoriesKnowingMastersFindingsCreatingChaosOneselfInventionVoidDiscourseVocationAwakenedAdoptingPurifying Author:Lewis Hyde