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“I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.”

People Thinking Humans Kind Artist Dark Periods Legends Coming Out

Author:Kristen Wiig

“I guess maybe my art can be said to be a protest. I see things a certain way, and as an artist I’m privileged in that arena to protest or say publicly what I’m thinking about. Maybe the strongest work I’ve done is because it was done with indignation. Considering myself as a feminist, I don’t want my work to be a reaction to what male art might be or what art with a capital A would be. I just want it to be art. In a convoluted way, I am protesting- protesting the usual way art is looked at, being shoved into a period or category.”

Thinking Way Want Art Said Done Might Would Be Artist Certain Periods Art Is Males Feminist Reactions Protest Strongest Categories Usual Considering Privileged Arena Indignation Convoluted

Author:Nancy Spero

“Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.”

Mean Art Ideas Artist Talent Periods Faculty

Author:Gustave Courbet

“It is necessary for the birthing process to begin to move in its own organic time. It is necessary that the artist have this sense of timing, that he or she respect... periods of receptivity as part of the mystery of creativity and creation.”

Moving Artist Process Creativity Mystery Creation Periods Timing Receptivity Birthing

Book:The Courage to Create

Source: The Courage to Create

“The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.”

“The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of John Constable (Illustrated)

“Experimental artists build their skills gradually over the course of their careers, improving their work slowly over long periods. These artists are perfectionists and are typically plagued by frustration at their inability to achieve their goals.”

Long Artist Courses Goal Careers Achieve Periods Skills Frustration Improving Inability Perfectionist

Book:Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

Source: Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity

“If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.”

Ifs Artist Periods Entertainers

Author:Rico Lebrun

“I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy.”

Different Enough Artist Easy History Style Painting Serious Periods Pages Training Add Historical Contribution Making History

Author:Liu Dan

“We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.”

Stills Artist Water Imagination Common One Thing Dangerous Lovers Periods Rivers Release Dry Internals Spells Farmers Psychics Careless Drought Dormant Blooming

Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces

“An artist requires the upkeep of creative solitude. An artist requires the healing of time alone. Without this period of recharging, our artist becomes depleted. Until we experience the freedom of solitude, we cannot connect authentically. We may be enmeshed, but we are not encountered. Art lies in the moment of encounter. We meet our truth and we meet ourselves and we meet our self-expression.”

May Art Self Moments Lying Artist Healing Creative Expression Periods Solitude Encounters Me Alone Self Expression Alone Time Upkeep Recharging

Author:Julia Cameron

“Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.”

Art Sometimes Problem Artist Generations Particular Periods Obsession Obsessed

Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

“[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The kind of imaginative abilities that artists have and that we all have in the appreciation of art - to appreciate Jane Austen, the late quartets of Beethoven.”

Years Kind Art Artist Ability Millions Periods Late Years Ago Appreciate Appreciation Imaginative Jane Austen Quartets

Author:Denis Dutton

“What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period.”

Artist Simple Periods Songwriters

Author:Ne-Yo

“I was poorer than anyone I'd ever met. But it was a great time to be a young artist - I remember it as a period of exceptional creative freedom and adventure, when one was regularly presented with works of art unlike anything one had ever seen before.”

Art Remember Young Artist Creative Adventure Periods Mets Works Of Art Exceptional Great Times Young Artists Creative Freedom

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.”

Art Artist Interesting Youth Periods Art Is Most Interesting

Book:The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

Source: The Notebooks of Samuel Butler

“I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.”

Thinking Feels Artist Periods Honestly Appreciated

Author:Ne-Yo

“In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period.”

Art Seems Artist Modern Periods Concern Innovation Modern Art

Author:Edward Hopper

“I don't think a songwriter should lose their mojo. In my situation, I'm one of those artists that lasts over a long period rather than have your moment and your moment is gone.”

Thinking Should Long Moments Lasts Artist Loses Situation Gone Periods Songwriters Your Mom Mojo

Author:Jimmy Cliff

“In mathematical science, more than in all others, it happens that truths which are at one period the most abstract, and apparently the most remote from all useful application, become in the next age the bases of profound physical inquiries, and in the succeeding one, perhaps, by proper simplification and reduction to tables, furnish their ready and daily aid to the artist and the sailor.”

Happens Age Artist Next Ready Periods Succeed Bases Tables Profound Aids Mathematical Abstract Application Inquiry Sailor Reduction Simplification

Book:Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine

Source: Reflections on the decline of science in England and on some of its causes: with a new appendix of correspondence by Charles Babbage & Peter M. Roget from the Philosophical magazine

“'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams.”

Running Artist Spirituality Grace Player Century Periods Jazz Labels Genre Drivers Sense Of Humor Composer Mary Odds Distinctive Ensemble Against All Odds

Author:Dave Douglas

“I really enjoy touring period! I had another band called Killing Machine, we went out on tour which was only fifteen shows & we went out in a really old motor home. That had to be the most fun. I didn't have to do radio at nine in the morning everyday. It was me & a bunch of friends. The singer was my tattoo artist. My girlfriend would fly in & we would sleep in a hammock above the bed the band were sleeping in [laughs]. I like that stuff that's really fun, I like the camping experience.”

“One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of the expert. There are experts who claim they cannot be fooled because they have an inner connection to an artist and can feel whether something is genuine or fake. I've heard experts say, on panels: When it comes to my period, or my painters, I cannot be fooled. And of course that's completely ridiculous.”

World Feels Art Artist Courses Heard Periods Aspect Connections Claims Ridiculous Genuine Painter Fake Experts Metaphysical Fooled Art World

Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“It's only when it's smoothed out by history and we try to make sense of it - this incredibly complicated period when everyone's doing something different every day - that we look for those stylistic similarities and we say, "Well, that's what that was about," and sort of forget all the other nuance. I definitely feel that that's true for this time in my community of artists, and I'm sure that it was true at other times too.”

Feels Trying Wells Looks Different Artist Community Forget Periods Complicated Make Sense Similarity Nuance

Author:Missy Mazzoli

“It was a period when live TV was just starting and getting popular and they took it seriously too. Not so much like TV now. They did Hemingway and Faulkner - and they’re all wonderful artists and it just was very creative at that time.”

Artist Creative Wonderful Tvs Periods Starting Live Tv

Author:Gena Rowlands

“As an artist you are free to use any image, any style, any idea from any culture and any period of history.”

Ideas Use Artist Culture Style Periods

Author:Michael Craig-Martin

“Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.”

Wells War Artist Modern Periods Posts Post War Existentialist

Author:Tilda Swinton

“There are many aspects about what and why we photograph: visual pleasure, personal empathy, intellectual stimulation, technical excellence, etc. Serious photographers and artists will try to create works that are original. Over a career period they may develop a singular identity in their images.”

Trying May Artist Pleasure Careers Identity Serious Periods Intellectual Empathy Aspect Originals Excellence Photographer Photograph Visuals Etc Stimulation

Author:Michael Kenna

“When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period were, in large measure, breaking out of the constrictions white society had set for them. They were claiming and remaking their own images, and doing so in bold and striking ways.”

Thinking Way Art Artist White Color Periods African American Renaissance Harlem Bright Colors Harlem Renaissance

Author:Nikki Grimes