Best men & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.”

“If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.”

Ifs Men Looks Artist Building One Man Another Man Facade

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.”

Thinking Men Want Seems Together Artist Situation Share Mets Ideals Working Together Partnership Woman Artist

Author:Tom Verlaine

“Let each man exercise the art he knows.”

Knows Men Art Artist Strength Exercise Art Is Life Changing

Book:Aristophanes

Source: Aristophanes

“A true artist is an ugly man.”

Men Artist Ugly True Artists Ugly Man

Author:Osamu Dazai

“Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.”

Men Should Said Artist Ambition Length Brushes Exceed

Author:Robert Breault

“You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.”

Thinking Men Two Lasts Artist Talent Painting Painter Muse Brushes Trios

Author:Robert Breault

“An artist, a man, a failure, must proceed.”

Men Artist Failure

Book:The Theatre of E. E. Cummings

Source: The Theatre of E. E. Cummings

“Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.”

Men Humans Mother Artist Struggle Treacherous Remorseless

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.”

Men Inspirational Mind Inspiration Artist Suffering Perfect He Man Perfection

Author:T. S. Eliot

“In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.”

Men Art Said Shows Artist Streets Art Is Afghanistan Graffiti Street Art

Author:Malina Suliman

“Real art, like the wife of an affectionate husband, needs no ornaments. But counterfeit art, like a prostitute, must always be decked out. The cause of production of real art is the artist's inner need to express a feeling that has accumulated...The cause of counterfeit art, as of prostitution, is gain. The consequence of true art is the introduction of a new feeling into the intercourse of life... The consequences of counterfeit art are the perversion of man, pleasure which never satisfies, and the weakening of man's spiritual strength.”

“A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.”

Men Enough Wisdom Artist Wish Wise Philosopher Great Art Being Wise Great Artist

Book:Heretics

Source: Heretics

“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.”

Ifs Men Would Be Artist Tree He Man Flower Kings Photography Paint Photographer Surface

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“The masterpiece should appear as the flower to the painter - perfect in its bud as in its bloom - with no reason to explain its presence - no mission to fulfill - a joy to the artist, a delusion to the philanthropist - a puzzle to the botanist - an accident of sentiment and alliteration to the literary man.”

Men Should Reason Joy Artist Perfect Flower Masters Missions Accidents Painter Delusion No Reason Sentiments Puzzles Masterpiece Bud Philanthropist Alliteration

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.”

Men Wells Faces Artist He Man Painting One Day Models Paint Features Canvas Portraits Portraiture

Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“The wonder of an artist's performance grows with the range of his penetration, with the instinctive sympathy that makes him, in his mortal isolation, considerate of other men's fate and a great diviner of their secret, so that his work speaks to them kindly, with a deeper assurance than they could have spoken with to themselves.”

Men Artist Speak Grows Secret Wonder Fate Performances Deeper Mortals Range Isolation Assurance Considerate Penetration

Book:The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

Source: The Life of Reason: Human Understanding

“Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man, leaving no part of him at leisure for your trifles?”

Knows Men Whole Artist Certain Leaving Vanity Leisure Trifles Quietness

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

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