Best secret & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The secret of 'fusion' is the fact that the artist's eye sees in nature... an inexhaustible wealth of tension, rhythms, continuities, and contrasts which can be rendered in line and color.”

Facts Eye Artist Lines Wealth Secret Color Rhythm Tension Contrast Continuity Fusion

Author:Susanne Katherina Langer

“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

“The artist... standing in the position of mediator between the world of his experience and the world of his dreams - 'a mediator, consequently gifted with twin faculties, a selective faculty and a reproductive faculty.' To equate these faculties was the secret of artistic success.”

World Dream Success Artist Secret Position Standing Artistic Faculty Twins Gifted Selective Mediators

Book:Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)

“Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.”

Needs Trying Artist Term Secret Encouragement Ashamed Pregnancy

Book:The Sound of Paper

Source: The Sound of Paper

“When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.”

Ifs Moments Artist Secret Communication That Moment Sensitivity

Author:Bruno Munari

“The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.”

Way Art Spiritual Artist Born Secret Existence Materials Art Is Gains Mysterious Works Of Art Spiritual Life Definite Casual

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.”

Ifs Needs Said Done Whole Bigs Together Artist Girl Secret Economy Window Green Tolerance Locals Awful Hey Fantastic Big Things Underwear Victoria Bras Panties Dressers Victoria's Secret

Author:Tina Weymouth

“The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.”

Artist Secret Ears Caught Rude Whispering Jagger Best Picture

Author:Robert Mapplethorpe

“Art is a creative effort of which the wellsprings lie in the spirit, and which brings us at once the most intimate self of the artist and the secret concurrences which he has perceived in things by means of a vision or intuition all his own, and not to be expressed in ideas and in words-expressible only in the work of art.”

Mean Art Ideas Self Spirit Lying Artist Effort Secret Vision Creative Art Is Intuition Intimate Works Of Art Wellspring Concurrence

Author:Jacques Maritain

“Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.”

Believe Artist Secret Cities Special Yield Venice

Author:Erica Jong

“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?”

“The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts”

“There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver.”

People Littles Problem Artist Actors Secret Known Streets Musician Physicist Marketplace Problem Solvers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“The secret for an artist is to make that a subject and not bang your head against the wall and give up. But to turn it into and treat the new subject matter, which is one's own vanishing.”

Giving Matter Artist Turns Secret Subjects Wall Giving Up Treats Bangs Subject Matter Vanishing

Author:Clive James

“I really don't have any secrets. I've never met a photographer whose work I respected that had a secret because the secret lies within each and every one of us.”

Lying Artist Secret Mets Photography Photographer

Author:John Sexton

“Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of all time and space call it brain or heart of creation activates every function, who is the artist who would not dwell there?”

Heart Artist Space Secret Brain Creation Evolution Function Chosen All Time Regions Nurture Time And Space Penetrate Activate Primeval Secret Places

Book:Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

Source: Paul Klee: dialogue with nature

“A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.”

Should Able Artist Secret Emotion Stage Should Have Spectators Transmit True Artists

Author:Anna Pavlova

“If I stop being on good behaviour for a moment, my dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art and simply cannot tell a good artist from a weak one, until the artist has enjoyed the validation of others - a received pronunciation.”

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I am an Artoholic. New Extended Edition: Questions from Journalists and Readers

“I wonder what art is about and I'm not sure that what I do is art because I'm a photographer, not an artist. But whatever you do, the secret is to do what you think you ought to do, and do the hell out of it.”

Thinking Art Artist Secret Wonder Hell Ought Art Is Photographer Not Sure

Author:Todd Walker

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