Best source & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.”

States Artist Suffering Energy Divine Source Naked Artistic Tension Great Art Discontent Great Artist Disequilibrium

Book:Truth and Fantasy from My Life

Source: Truth and Fantasy from My Life

“Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.”

Should Jobs Artist Source Criticism Productivity Approval Petty Arrested Avoidance Closure Premature Approval Of Others

Author:Robert Genn

“Some say it appears that painting has come to an end. I say the problem is that the painters' curiosity has come to an end, and this is more observable in the West and not in the East, since in the East there are plenty of untouched and unexplored spaces that could still inspire an artist as sources of creativity.”

Stills Ends Problem Artist Space Creativity Inspire Painting Source West Curiosity East Painter Plenty Unexplored

Author:Guity Novin

“The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge for trouble and transforms it in her work.”

Knows World Artist Trouble Source Urges Tolerate Harness

Book:The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles

“Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and organize these selections into works that are under the control of the artist.... In relation to the inclusiveness and literally endless intricacy of life, art is arbitrary, symbolic and abstracted. That is its value and the source of its own kind of order and coherence.”

Life Kind Art Artist Values Order Materials Source Art Is Relation Endless Mediums Organize Selection Arbitrary Symbolic Coherence Intricacy Inclusiveness

Author:Jane Jacobs

“You can't expect to be on MTV and critique George Bush. You can't expect to be on BET or the cover of 'The Source' advocating Jesus Christ or Buddha or Hindu Krishna or Moses. As a conscious rap artist, you have to play in the arena that you're supposed to be in. What is that arena? That arena is the college market. The conscious rap artist woos the college market, even though the college market is the wildest, most sexed-out, drug-driven market in the country, possibly the world.”

World Country Play Artist Jesus Christ College Source Drug Conscious Jesus Christ Rap Driven Supposed To Be Arena Moses Critique Krishna Advocating Mtv Rap Artist Conscious Rap

Author:KRS-One

“Each state of the human mind has some parable in the physical creation by which it is shadowed forth; nor is it only artists and poets, but even the most abstract thinkers that have drawn from this source. Lively activity we name fire; time is a stream that rolls on, sweeping all before it; eternity is a circle; a mystery is hid in midnight gloom, and truth dwells in the sun. Nay, I begin to believe that even the future destiny of the human race is prefigured in the dark oracular utterances of bodily creation.”

Source: Works

“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

“Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of institutional art teaching to produce a fine-arts culture given over to information and not experience. This faithfully echoes the drain of concreteness from modern existence- the reign of mere unassimilated data instead of events that gain meaning by being absorbed into the fabric of imaginative life.”

Source: The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes

“Source of inspiration. The MAK is a museum that has had a profound effect on me as an artist and art viewer.”

Art Inspiration Artist Effects Source Profound Museums Viewers Source Of Inspiration

Author:Kiki Smith

“The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with.”

People Want Feels Seems Artist Names Position Source Offers Authority Comfortable Function Range Priests Consolation Surrogates

Author:Alex Johnston

“Politicians, bureaucrats, editors, new commentators, 'economists' teachers,' and other word artists who denounce private enterprise and praise socialism are their own worst enemies...these attackers are unwittingly destroying the sources of their own livelihood. They kill the geese that lay the golden eggs - and don't know it!”

“Artists are interested in pictures as sources of ideas for their work. Where the pictures come from and how they are made is of little concern to them.”

Littles Made Ideas Artist Source Concern

Author:Van Deren Coke

“Every time I put a collection together I'd scrap it because there was no "meaning," until I wrote about the two black men - friends - in the beginning of the book. So much of their experience was ABOUT trying to find friends in the authors/artists I wrote about - subjects that were/are a source of comfort, somehow, since none of them "fit," either”

Men Trying Two Book Together Artist Black Subjects Source Fit Comfort Collections Scrap

Author:Hilton Als

“An artist's voice, communication, that's very important. The learning, the building of your energy to communicate deeper and deeper even without words, the expanse of your source-spark energy to reach people at deeper energy levels is very beautiful to learn about since it's our mission here as artists to help beings transcend limitations and any feeling, thing keeping their love down to show them that we are all artists with very special sides of energy light from the creator.”

“So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with particular kinds of problems. I don't think we should think of Haydn or Mozart or Dickens or George Eliot in these terms.”

Thinking Should Kind Problem Artist Fighting Term Deals Doubt Particular Source Artistic Neurosis Dickens Eliot Incompleteness

Author:Philip Kitcher

“Now the expectation is that, once the public decides that the artist is gentrified, the public demands that the artist stop growing. And [the public] actually puts all their energy into reasserting or re-establishing what the artist has long ago left behind. Because that's what they want. The source of creativity, the gift that's been given, be damned.”

Want Long Artist Energy Left Given Behinds Creativity Growing Source Demand Expectations Long Ago Left Behind

Author:Billy Corgan

“When I did "Seven Easy Pieces," I actually re-performed the performances of other artists. It was such difficult work because I had to really go through the documentation, look through the sources, to ask the witnesses who saw it.”

Looks Artist Asks Easy Difficult Saws Pieces Source Performances Seven Witness Documentation Difficult Work

Author:Marina Abramovic

“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”

Persons Artist Education Source Perception Celestial Perception Of Beauty

Author:Michelangelo

“The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.”

Body Artist Creativity Source Belle

Author:Emmanuelle Beart

“Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.”

Art Different Matter Today Artist Modern Subjects Source Painter Subject Matter Modern Art

Book:Jackson Pollock

Source: Jackson Pollock

“No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.”

Men Life Might Artist Records Building Source Higher Built Streams Architect Organic Architecture

Book:The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

Source: The Essential Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Writings on Architecture

“One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.”

People Should Looks Art Political Artist Certain Interesting Music Source Politician Framework Interesting Things Art And Music Shaping The Future

Author:Thom Yorke

“It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!”

People Ifs Knows World Mind Body Inspiration Beautiful Artist Hours Conditions Effects Creation Strange Source Labor Good Things Excellence Alarms Intercourse Fertile

Author:Thomas Mann

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