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“The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.”

Spirit Artist Materials Yield Stimulus Transmit

Author:Odilon Redon

“Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it.”

Spirit Artist Messages Certainty Uncertainty Revelations Strokes

Book:The Art Spirit

Source: The Art Spirit

“Painting, art in general, enchants me. It is my life. What else matters? When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits. Is not that all an artist should wish for?”

Needs Should Art Soul Matter Spirit Desire Artist Wish Failing Painting Noble Your Soul Host Kindred Painting Art

Book:Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

“The power of beauty at work in man, as the artist has always known, is severe and exacting, and once evoked, will never leave him alone, until he brings his work and life into some semblance of harmony with its spirit.”

Men Spirit Artist Known Beauty Harmony Severe Semblance Work And Life

Author:Lawren Harris

“An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.”

Needs Giving Spirit Artist Courses Share Advice Generosity Generosity Of Spirit Free Advice

Author:Veronica Roth

“Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.”

Spirit Artist Turns Born Blood Poet Hills Santa Rosa

Author:Robert Ripley

“Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, but then the summer ended and most of the painters left, and the long dingy undergarment of the gray New England winter, gray as the spirit of my mood, came down to visit.”

Source: Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel

“Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.”

Soul Spirit Artist Creation Exploration Intricate Desolation

Author:El Greco

“To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ... While all melts under our feet, we may well grasp at any exquisite passion, or any contribution to knowledge that seems by a lifted horizon to set the spirit free for a moment, or any stirring of the senses, strange dyes, strange colours, and curious odours, or work of the artist's hands, or the face of one's friend.”

Source: The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

“No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.”

Way May Matter Seems Spirit Artist Work Masters Humble Lifts Drudgery

Book:He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality

Source: He Can Who Thinks He Can, and Other Papers on Success in Life: From the Renowned Author of Inspirational Works like How to Get what You Want, Prosperity and How to Get It, The Miracles of Right Thought, Self-Investment and Masterful Personality

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“I don't doubt that at the dawn of martial arts, the main goal was to beat up one's opponents in the most effective way possible. But then, indirectly, the alchemy of martial arts began to strike some chords deep within the spirit of many individuals, transforming living war-machines into poets, artists, and philosophers.”

Source: On the Warrior's Path, Second Edition: Philosophy, Fighting, and Martial Arts Mythology

“The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.”

Art Spirit Artist Vision Seeing Appearing

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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

“We do not know and cannot tell when the spirit is with us. Great talent or small, it makes no difference. We are caught within our own skins, our own sensibilities; we never know if our technique has been adequate to the vision.”

Ifs Knows Has Beens Spirit Artist Differences Vision Talent Skins Caught Technique Sensibility Adequate Great Talent

Book:The Irrational Season

Source: The Irrational Season

“the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.”

Humans Spirit Artist Independence Human Spirit

Author:C. V. Wedgwood

“Off fall the wife, the mother, the lover, the teacher, and the violent artist takes over. I am I alone. I belong to no one but myself. I mate with no one but the spirit. I own no land, have no kin, no friend or enemy. I have no road but this one.”

Spirit Mother Artist Fall Enemy Teacher Wife Land Lovers Violent Mates No Friends

Book:Myself

Source: Myself

“As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.”

“if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?”

Ifs World Firsts Together Spirit Artist Theater Ghost Playwright Get Together Spirit World

Book:Black Oxen

Source: Black Oxen

“Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.”

People Spirit Artist Song Bigger

Author:Steve Lillywhite

“Love is the spirit that motivates the artist's journey. The love may sublime, raw, obsessive, passionate, awful. or thrilling, but whatever its quality, it's a powerful motive in the artist's life.”

May Spirit Artist Love Is Powerful Quality Journey Passionate Awful Motive Sublime Thrilling Obsessive

Book:Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

Source: Creativity for Life: Practical Advice on the Artist's Personality, and Career from America's Foremost Creativity Coach

“It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.”

Art Joy Spirit Artist Given Beauty Sorrow Calm Privilege Rhythm Horrific Cadence Prodigious

Author:Charles Baudelaire