Best function & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.”

Able Artist Function Adversity Notion Nine Atmosphere Indifference Nonsense Misunderstanding Hostility

Book:H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

Source: H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series

“The genuine creator creates something that has a life of its own, something that can exist and function without him. This is true not only of the writer, artist and scientist, but of creators in other fields.With the noncreative it is the other way around: in whatever they do, they arrange things so that they themselves become indispensable.”

Way Artist Fields Scientist Function Creator Genuine Indispensable

Author:Eric Hoffer

“To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.”

Ifs Book Matter Moving Artist Choices Middle Subjects Style Calling Function Blue Sentences Commit Subject Matter One Direction

Book:Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

Source: Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals

“The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.”

World Ideas Seems Artist Change Changed Function Aliens Improving

Author:Georg Baselitz

“If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.”

Ifs Firsts Artist Saws Duty Function Critics

Author:J. E. H. MacDonald

“The function of the artist is to organize the facets of life according to his imagination.”

Life Artist Imagination Function Organize Facets

Book:The Art of Romare Bearden

Source: The Art of Romare Bearden

“The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.”

Giving Real Artist Vision Generations Function

Author:Doris McCarthy

“Picasso has a volatile, explosive presence. He seems to take art back to an earlier function, before the centuries of museums and masterpieces; he is the artist as clown, as conjurer, as master funmaker.”

Art Seems Artist Century Masters Function Museums Masterpiece Clown Explosives

Book:5001 Nights at the Movies

Source: 5001 Nights at the Movies

“To desire to be an artist is to desire to be a complete man in respect to some one function, to realize yourself utterly. A man is a poor thing who is content not to be an artist.”

Men Desire Artist Realizing Poor Function

Author:Charles Horton Cooley

“Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.”

Artist Social Function Remains Unanswered

Author:Jorg Immendorff

“A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.”

Ideas Use Feelings Artist Simple Levels Direct Function Simplicity Familiar Containers Snowball

Book:Midsummer Snowballs

Source: Midsummer Snowballs

“We worked out a lot of bugs and figured out who was working and who wasn't and how this beast functions. It was a lot bigger than we actually thought, and now we have a well-run ship where it feels I can actually have time to imagine and not just stress out about everything.”

Feels Wells I Can Running Artist Imagine Function Bigger Stress Ships Beast Bugs

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited. I believe in people so much that if the whole of civilization is burned so we don't have any memory of it, even then people will start to build their own art. It is a necessity -- a function. We don't need history.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Art Whole Artist I Believe Memories Civilization Function I Believe In Burned

Author:Yoko Ono

“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Ifs Knows Wells Problem Artist Belief Strong Know How Groups Style Painting Skills Draws Function Drawing Painter Abstract Muscles Grounded Sculpture Anatomy Biased

Author:Guity Novin

“When I was a young actor, I just didn’t understand how to function in this business as an artist. It is a business, it’s called the film business for a reason, there’s money involved ... But on the flip side, now I do not let the business side of it rule either. It’s a balance.”

Reason Film Young Artist Actors Sides Balance Involved Function Flip Young Actors

Author:James Franco

“There's generally no good reason why others should care about most of any one artist's work. The function of the overwhelming majority of your artwork is simply to teach you how to make the small fraction of your artwork that soars.”

Should Reason Care Artist Teach Function Majority Reason Why Overwhelming Soar Fractions Artwork

Book:Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

Source: Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking

“My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.”

Years Artist Democracy Function Defined Eras Apartheid

Author:Athol Fugard

“The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present and points the way to its new birth. He is at once the product and preceptor of his times.”

World Way Shows Artist Dark Duty Products Birth Function Shakes Pillars Ancestry Complacent Sleepers

Author:Norman Bethune

“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush function well with a particular kind of paint?). What's more, artists need effective techniques for using those tools. Likewise, to express ourselves skillfully with maximum efficiency and minimum effort, we need to investigate the most effective ways of using the mind and body since, in the end, they are the only "tools" we truly possess in life.”

Way Needs Mind Wells Kind Doe Art Ends Body Inspiration Artist Certain Effort Particular Tools Function Paint Technique Efficiency Minimum Brushes Maximum Mind And Body

Author:H. E Davey

“There were always people like the pope. They serve a certain function, of course. They subsidize us. But, they don't create anything and they must never be allowed to stop the artist from creating.”

People Artist Certain Courses Creating Function Pope

Author:Andrew Schneider

“Its such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, Im going to really work hard for it and give it and its just going to matter to people. You really have to believe it all on your own.”

People Giving Believe Self Matter Hard Artist Hard Work Function Self Confidence

Author:Dan Colen

“I think both science and art are impelled by curiosity: What's really happening? How do things really function? How can I really engage with the world around me? These are questions that artists and scientists both ask.”

Thinking World Art Artist Asks Happenings Scientist Function Curiosity Art And Science

Author:Amy Hardie

“I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.”

People Thinking Bigs Artist Actors Circumstances Function Movie Big Movie

Author:Ang Lee

“Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?”

Heart Artist Space Secret Brain Creation Evolution Function Chosen All Time Regions Nurture Time And Space Penetrate Activate Primeval Secret Places

Book:Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

Source: Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

“I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the way you function in society, your beliefs and the way you live, that is where you will find a real musician, a real artist.”

Way Real Artist Belief Given Study Musician Function These Days Proficiency Real Artists

Author:David Finckel

“The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.”

People Want Feels Seems Artist Names Position Source Offers Authority Comfortable Function Range Priests Consolation Surrogates

Author:Alex Johnston

“[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise to its conclusion, avoiding subjectivity. Chance, taste, or unconsciously remembered forms would play no part in the outcome. The serial artist does not attempt to produce a beautiful or mysterious object but functions merely as a clerk cataloguing the results of his premise.”

“I've just always been that kid that was like, "Look at me! Look at me!," and doing performances and skits. I'm also, as most artists are, a very sensitive person, so I need that outlet to release that. Art needs to be in my life, otherwise I can't function as a human being. I heard Madonna say, "Live it, breathe it, eat it." That's how I am with the artistic part of myself.”

Needs Humans Looks Persons Art I Can Kids Artist Human Beings Heard Performances Function Breathe Release Artistic Sensitive Look At Me Outlets Sensitive Person Skit

Author:Tinsel Korey

“One reason for making and exhibiting a work is to induce a reaction or change in the viewer.... In this sense, the work as such is nonexistent except when it functions as a medium of change between the artist and viewer.”

Reason Artist Function Reactions Mediums Viewers

Book:Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object

Source: Talking to Myself: The Ongoing Autobiography of an Art Object

“I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.”

Art Said I Can Book Artist Deals Pieces Reader Function Intention Confusing Speculation Prologue

Author:Laura Mullen

“I think there should be a reworking of the value structure of art. The value is when the artist makes a first engagement with society. That work has the most value. That is the function of the artist. That result.”

Thinking Should Firsts Art Artist Values Results Function Structure Engagement

Author:Lawrence Weiner

“How does the artist function as poet-slash-witness-slash-trickster?”

Doe Artist Poet Function Witness Tricksters

Author:Kehinde Wiley

“Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

Artist Literature Function Critics Tales Never Trust

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.”

Art Artist Culture Individual Judgment Perception Function Environmental Tyranny Primaries Permit Autonomy Individual Autonomy

Author:Beverly Sills

“The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.”

People Artist Function

Book:If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

Source: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young

“The function of the artist is to provide what life does not.”

Doe Artist Function

Author:Tom Robbins

“The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.”

Art Artist Reader Art Is Function Blue Proof Criticize Edits Spelling Impassioned

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

Way Two Used Artist Moral Function Critics Tales Opposing Never Trust

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.”

Wisdom Today Artist Function Prophet Priests Pilgrim Alchemist Hermits

Book:The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

Source: The Literary Essays of Thomas Merton

“The ultimate function of art is to make men do what they want to do, as it is to make them recognize what they know.”

Knows Men Want Art Artist Art Is Ultimate Function

Author:Maurice Blondel

“The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any kind of creature imaginable. That's too big. It provides no focus for the artist. An artist needs, in order to function, some narrowing of focus. Usually, in the history of art, the narrower the focus in which the artist is forced to work, the greater the art.”

Needs Writing Kind Art Bigs Past Artist Order Universe Space Fiction Greater Focus Trouble Creatures Function Science Fiction

Author:Philip J. Klass

“The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.”

Writing Art Artist Consciousness Function Cherish Defining

Book:Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology

Source: Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology

“I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.”

Want Desire Artist Process Expression Function Edges Accepted Instant Breasts Feeding Toilets Gratification Repressed Instant Gratification

Author:Bat for Lashes

“I can't tell you what art does and how it does it, but I know that often art has judged the judges, pleaded revenge to the innocent and shown to the future what the past suffered, so that it has never been forgotten. Art, when it functions like this, becomes a meeting-place of the invisible, the irreducible, the enduring, guts, and honor.”

Knows Doe Art I Can Past Artist Judging Honor Function Meetings Endure Forgotten Revenge Invisible Innocent Guts Judged

Book:Keeping a Rendezvous

Source: Keeping a Rendezvous

“I don't think that writers or painters or filmmakers function because they have something they particularly want to say. They have something that they feel. And they like the art form; they like words, or the smell of paint, or celluloid and photographic images and working with actors. I don't think that any genuine artist has ever been oriented by some didactic point of view, even if he thought he was.”

Ifs Thinking Want Feels Art Form Artist Actors Views Function Paint Smell Point Of View Genuine Painter Filmmaker Didactic Celluloid

Author:Stanley Kubrick

“The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement”

Should Artist Models Function Starting Painter Excitement Providing Starting Point

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

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