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“It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.”

Life Able Artist Amazing Job

Author:Steve Jobs

“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

“There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.”

Men Life Art Artist Disease Release Dirty Slate

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?”

Men Life Art Book Artist Hope Sea Land Painting Live Life Awake Dragons Guarded Dolphins Wagons Nymphs Hope To Live

Book:The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition

“Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.”

Life Kind Art Artist Values Order Materials Source Art Is Relation Endless Mediums Organize Selection Arbitrary Symbolic Coherence Intricacy Inclusiveness

Author:Jane Jacobs

“If someone took the finest marble and knew how to shape it artfully: Prometheus' material was lowly clay, but his statues walked.”

Ifs Life Art Artist Values Materials Shapes Finest Clay Statues Marble Prometheus

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“Great artists have no country.”

Life Country Artist Patriot Great Art Great Artist Artistry

Book:Comedies, tr. by Raoul Pellissier, E. B. Thompson, Mary H. Dey

Source: Comedies, tr. by Raoul Pellissier, E. B. Thompson, Mary H. Dey

“The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.”

Life Artist Roles Witness Timbuktu

Author:Abderrahmane Sissako