“Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.” ThinkingFeelsShouldKindAgeFormYoungTakenWonderfulEncouragementArtisticEndeavorScopeAttemptingYoung WritersInexperience Author:Tea Obreht
“The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.” ShouldPersonsSometimesCommunityLeaderArtisticHeatConductorArbiterAnything Goes Author:Leonard Slatkin
“Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements' and 'harmonies.” ShouldKindArtEyeEmotionCallingConcernEarsHarmonyIndependentDevotionPityArtisticAppealsTrapsArrangementsStand AloneConfoundingPity Love Book:Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of James McNeill Whistler (Illustrated)
“I recommend that you should work actively... and study the artistic structures of Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Watteau, Poussin, and other painters, even Chardin, where he is an artist. Study very closely their dabbing manner of execution and try to copy a small piece of canvas, just one square inch.” ShouldTryingArtistStudyPiecesMastersStructurePainterArtisticJust OneCopiesSquaresInchesExecutionCanvasSmall PiecesRubens Author:Kazimir Malevich
“I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.” NeedsShouldCultureCoursesHealthyDenyConvincedArtisticNormContinuityHealthy Society Author:Earle Brown