“I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.” ThinkingWorldPastArtistBitsBrainInformationComputer Author:Gerald Scarfe
“People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.” PeopleNeedsUsePastArtistNamesPerspectiveMusicianRelatedGreat MusicGreat Musician Author:Sondre Lerche
“I deny that art can be taught, or, in other words, maintain that art is completely individual, and that the talent of each artist is but the result of his own inspiration and his own study of past tradition.” ArtInspirationPastArtistIndividualResultsEducationStudyTalentTaughtArt IsTraditionDeny Author:Gustave Courbet
“Many works of the past complete what they announce they are going to do, to our increasing boredom. Certain others plague me because I cannot follow their intentions. I can tell at a glance what Fabritius is doing, but I am spending my life trying to find out what Rembrandt was up to.” TryingI CanPastArtistCertainIntentionSpendingBoredomGlancesPlague Author:Philip Guston
“The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.” AgePastFormArtistGenuineMidstGreat ArtGreat ArtistTimeliness Author:Franz Marc
“To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.” ArtPastArtistCenturyPaintingMastersYesterdayHistorianGiotto Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. The past is the past. I just want to focus on the future, and getting better, not making the same mistakes and just becoming a better person, a better artist. Just a better everything.” WantPersonsTodayPastArtistMistakeFocusHappenedBecomingGet BetterBetter PersonSame MistakesMaking The Same MistakesFocus On The FutureBecoming A Better Person Author:Jay Park
“The aggregate energy of all the great masters of the past and those of the present communicates the greatest possibilities of art. It is from this position that the artist attains colossal strength.” ArtPastArtistEnergyStrengthPossibilityPositionMastersCommunicateColossal Author:Jorg Immendorff
“I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.” YearsHeartRealPastArtistTraveledReal Things Author:Bill Gaither
“Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.” PastArtistCherishPhoenix Author:Janet Fitch
“I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.” WorldTryingI CanPastArtistDifficultGrowing UpGrowingThis WorldStandingWho I Am Author:Matt Bomer
“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present” ReasonTodayPastArtistValuesPleasureInterestingQualityPaintingEssentialsConcernHistoricalDuesMannersRepresentationHistorical Value Book:The Painters of Modern Life Source: The Painters of Modern Life
“My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.” TryingKindI CanStoriesPastArtistGoalInterestingActingEmotionalContemporarySomething NewRelevantGood StoryLearn From The Past Author:Ethan Hawke
“Since men do not really respect anything unless it was established long ago and has developed slowly over time, those who want tokeep on living after their death must take worry not only about their future generations but even more about their past: that is why tyrants of all kinds (including tyrannical artists and politicians) like to do violence to history, so that it will appear as a preparation and stepladder to themselves.” MenWantKindLongPastArtistWorryViolenceGenerationsPoliticianIncludingAll KindsPreparationTyrantsLong AgoFuture Generation Author:Friedrich Nietzsche