“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.” KnowsHumansKindArtistActorsCreativityKnow HowHuman NatureDirectorsMusicianTendenciesTrendsPredictionsGreat ArtChordsGreat ArtistPrevailingAmenable Author:Maurice Saatchi
“It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.” WorldWantBelieveHumansIdeasArtistI BelieveHuman NatureBottom Author:M. C. Escher
“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?” HumansMomentsHappensArtistCertainBitsSecretDoubtHuman NatureLuckBlowSupremePsychologicalPhrasesNo DoubtNow And ThenQuotationsCunningHammersPinsBorrowedEmulateTemptingCondiments Author:Ethel Smyth
“It's easy to attack an artist as misogynist, but that's really such a facile epithet. And if an artist is constantly worrying about how others will judge a work, it can end up being a block to investigating certain areas of human nature or certain truths about sexuality.” IfsHumansEndsArtistCertainEasyWorryHuman NatureJudgingAreasSexualityBlockWorking ItInvestigatingEpithet Author:Lisa Yuskavage
“Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.” HumansArtistHuman NatureCreatorMetaphysicsRealist Author:Nikolai Berdyaev
“I think it's every artist's nature to want to escape. It's also human nature in a way, depending on your personality, to want to get away from it all.” ThinkingWayWantHumansArtistHuman NaturePersonalityGet Away Author:Tavares Strachan
“I always like to remain a fan, put it that way: and I like to hold the idealised version of what these artists are like. Greed is one of those components of human nature that's inherent in everyone, and sometimes it is an unpleasant thing to engage in.” SometimesArtistHuman NatureGreed Author:DJ Shadow
“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.” HumansArtArtistHuman NatureDependsScholarFolk Art Author:Steven Pinker