“The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.” RealDreamPurposeArtistLossPersonalityMediumsDisturbanceBreadth Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time.” WayLightArtistLosesChanceLossStormCirclesBeachSunsetConservationSoarMasterpieceShiftingFilesGalleryMazesOld TimeCrimsonBright LightsNature ConservationAfterglowPelicans Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia
“The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.” ArtArtistLossAudienceModernArt IsConcernArchitectureProgressiveModern Art Author:Paul Gauguin
“Im happy to say that at 62, I think Ive reached that point where stuff doesnt bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that Ive had, and losing so many of the great artists that I was close to. They taught me how to see it with a grain of salt and a lot of humor and perspective.” ThinkingWayArtistStuffLossLevelsGoneTaughtPerspectiveGratitudeLosingBotherSaltGrainGreat ArtGreat ArtistGrain Of Salt Author:Bonnie Raitt
“Relationships are hard regardless! But I think they feed the artist: relationships, children, life, family - it all feeds the artist. Loss. Joy. Sacrifice.” ThinkingChildrenHardJoyArtistLossSacrificeFamily Life Author:Kathy Baker
“I think I'm really fortunate to be an installation artist who is heavily invested in photography: I don't have the emotional problems with the loss of work that some installation artists have. The photographs wouldn't exist without the installation... but at the same time, I think I'd kill myself if I only did installations. There's something deeply tragic about doing work that you know is temporal.” IfsThinkingKnowsProblemArtistLossEmotionalPhotographyPhotographFortunateTragicInstallationEmotional Problems Author:Sandy Skoglund
“Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.” IfsArtistLossCreativeDependsRadioVideo Author:Talib Kweli
“Artists react to tragedy by doing something both as a way for us as artists to process our pain and our grief and our loss and as a way to give something back and memorialize people that are lost. That always makes it far harder to compartmentalize things. As a species, should never get used to tragedy and we should do everything we can to prevent it from happening and to celebrate people loving people. We should all be lucky enough to be loved and to love someone in return. That's what this is about.” PeopleGivingEnoughPainArtistLossGriefLuckyTragedyCelebrate Author:Marc Andreyko
“There is a good deal of art that in some traditions of conceptual work are anti-affect, in fact a very large chunk of mainstream art after 1950 took against affect art altogether because they said, "No, we hate affect art because this is how we get manipulated by totalitarianism and therefore artists shouldn't play that game." And a lot of artists agreed to play that game, which I personally believe is to the loss of art.” BelieveArtArtistHateLossArt IsTraditionTotalitarianism Author:Laura Belem
“You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.” TryingStillsSometimesFeelingsArtistSongLossSpaceCuttingMissingSilentFollowingHolesAbandonedLoved OnesTime And SpaceFull LifeLoss Of A Loved OneAdriftPascalHissing Author:Bono
“It is hard to think of any work of art of which one can say 'this saved the life of one Jew, one Vietnamese, one Cambodian'. Specific books, perhaps; but as far as one can tell, no paintings or sculptures. The difference between us and the artists of the 1920's is that they they thought such a work of art could be made. Perhaps it was a certain naivete that made them think so. But it is certainly our loss that we cannot.” ThinkingArtMadeBookHardArtistCertainDifferencesLossPaintingJewSavedWorks Of ArtSculptureVietnameseNaivete Author:Robert Hughes