Best opposites & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.”

Giving Two Artist Lines Teacher Teaching Style Students Shapes Opposites Accounts Paint Variety Explanation Colour Unexpected Being An Artist Inexplicable Being A Teacher

Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“The tendency of our perceptions is to emphasise increasingly the objective elements in an impression, unless we have some special reason, as artists have, for doing the opposite.”

Reason Artist Special Elements Perception Opposites Impression Objectives Tendencies

Book:An Outline of Philosophy

Source: An Outline of Philosophy

“The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.”

People Artist Song Ego Singing Opposites Judgement

Author:Romare Bearden

“Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves middle class, but that does not carry with it any determinate spiritual content. ... The term "middle class" does not have any of the many opposites that bourgeois has, such as aristocrat, saint, hero, or artist - all good.”

Doe Matter Spiritual Artist Term Class Middle Hero Opposites Saint Middle Class Bourgeois

Author:Allan Bloom

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“If you're going to be a visual artist, then there has to be something in the work that accounts for the possibility of the invisible, the opposite of the visual experience. That's why it's not like a table or a car or something. I think that that might even be hard for people because most of our visual experiences are of tables. It has no business being anything else but a table. But a painting or a sculpture really exists somewhere between itself, what it is, and what it is not-you know, the very thing. And how the artist engineers or manages that is the question.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Hard Might Artist Car Possibility Painting Opposites Accounts Tables Invisible Manage Visuals Engineers Sculpture Visual Art Visual Artist

Author:Richard Tuttle

“I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.”

Thinking Writing Kind Character Artist Interesting Creating Opposites Clean Activism Contradiction Activist Odds Palate Creating Characters

Author:Eve Ensler

“Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.”

Said Wanted Artist Happened Opposites Solo

Author:Sammy Hagar

“Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in the universe. A lot of people get caught up in this idea of, "Wow! This world does revolve around me," and it most certainly does not. It's the exact opposite; these people don't exist for you, you exist for them.”

People World Doe Ideas Artist Universe Roles This World Opposites Caught Following Scary Wow Caught Up Being An Artist Scary Things

Author:Halsey

“To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.”

Ifs Inspirational Art Spirit Artist Literature Talent Source Genius Glory Opposites Chains Related Links Ancestor Nobility Aristocracy

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“It's frustrating always being compared to Britney because we are two very different artists... We both dance and sing but people have not yet had enough time to realise that there is a huge difference between us. If she wants to go and do something, I'll want to do the opposite.”

People Ifs Want Two Different Enough Artist Differences Huge Opposites Realising Frustrating Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Christina Aguilera

“What I've learnt about artists over the years is, artists are usually the opposite to their music.”

Years Artist Opposites

Author:Marina and the Diamonds

“I have my own little sense of style. As far as image goes today for a new artist, you'll find that fashion is really important. I wouldn't want to show up for a performance in something that is absolutely the opposite of who I am as an artist.”

Want Littles Important Shows Today Artist My Own Fashion Style Opposites Performances Who I Am New Artists

Author:Miranda Lambert

“There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.”

Ifs Artist Produce Perception Opposites

Author:Beck

“I was worried that I, the artist Morimura, would have conflicts with the participating artists and develop a strenuous relationship with them. But the actual experience was completely the opposite. The artists accepted my requests rather positively, because it came from a fellow artist. I strongly feel that the fact that my being an artist avoided the usual curator vs artist tension, and led to creating a positive atmosphere as well as developing a solidarity amongst artists and building a community for artists.”

“This is why there is not any artist who takes Internet as the theme. My position is quite the opposite to the current trend of art, but this is exactly why the title of my exhibition is "ART Fahrenheit 451".”

Art Artist Position Internet Opposites Currents Titles Theme Trends Exhibitions

Author:Yasumasa Morimura

“Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.”

Ends Reason Artist Nature Experience Opposites

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.”

Self Matter Desire Artist Awareness Unique Opposites Self Awareness Shrinks Unique Gifts

Author:James Broughton

“The only thing that makes one an artist is making art. And that requires the precise opposite of hanging out; a deeply lonely and unglamorous task of tolerating oneself long enough to push something out.”

Long Art Enough Artist Tasks Lonely Opposites Oneself Hanging Out Precise

Author:David Rakoff

“She was an artist. She held opposites in her mind.”

Mind Artist Opposites

Book:Canada

Source: Canada

Opposites Quotes

Related topics

Opposites Quotes