Best wish & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.”

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Source: Heretics

“It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.”

Ifs Seems Today Artist Wish Serious Solitude

Source: Edgar Degas

“To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity. Pleasure must be found in the studying.”

Men Artist Found Wish Pleasure Study He Man Standards Raises Obscurity

Author:Paul Cezanne

“It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.”

Giving Feelings Artist Wish Painting Perception Observation Atmosphere Register

Author:Lucian Freud

“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?”

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Book:Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

Source: Camille Pissarro: letters to his son Lucien

“I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.”

Humans Art Body Artist Fall Wish Situation Teaching Highest Noble Ruins Human Body Elevation Small Beginnings

Author:Giorgio Vasari

“A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.”

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Author:Franklin Carmichael

“I shall not find a painting more beautiful because the artist has painted a hawthorn in the foreground, though I know of nothing more beautiful than the hawthorn, for I wish to remain sincere and because I know that the beauty of a painting does not depend on the things represented in it. I shall not collect images of hawthorn. I do not venerate hawthorn, I go to see and smell it.”

Knows Doe Beautiful Artist Wish Painting Depends Smell Sincere Foreground

Author:Marcel Proust

“He [the artist] ought to have 'these powerful organs of expression' - colour and chiaroscuro - entirely at his command, that he may use them in every possible form, as well as that he may do with the most perfect freedom; therefore, whether he wishes to make the subject of a joyous, solemn, or meditative character, by flinging over it the cheerful aspect which the sun bestows, by a proper disposition of shade, or by the appearances that beautify its arising or its setting, a true "General Effect" should never be lost sight of.”

“What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography came in a sitter had a perfect right to say to the artist: "Paint me just as I am." Now if he wishes absolute fidelity he can go to the photographer and get it.”

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Author:Aubrey Beardsley

“Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were.”

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Author:Ice Cube

“Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.”

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Author:Tennessee Williams

“I wish that the arts were better supported, and you can't say that enough times, but I also believe that whatever happens, artists will keep going.”

Believe Art Enough Happens Artist Wish Keep Going Enough Time Whatever Happens

Author:Ben Whishaw

“The revelatory or visionary is the province of the 'private' artist, who in order to render his personal world comprehensible or even tolerable, must force others to believe in it and therefore share it. It is said that 'the poet does not wish to be understood, but to be believed.”

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Author:Kenneth Coutts-Smith

“I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.”

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Author:Nicolas Berggruen

“I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!”

Years Kind Has Beens Two Artist Wish Blood Involved Band My Family Hendrix

Author:Earl Monroe

“We wish with our hands, that's what we do as artists.”

Hands Artist Wish

Book:I'll Give You the Sun

Source: I'll Give You the Sun

“The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it can betoo easily countered. The best punches, like the best pieces of invective in this style, are either short-arm jabs, unexpectedly rapid and deadly; or else one-two blows, where you prepare your opponent with the first hit, and then, as his face comes forward, connect with your other fist: one, two. Both are effective; but they can be administered only by a real artist, with a real wish to knock his enemy out.”

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Author:Gilbert Highet

“Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.”

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Author:Steven Pressfield

“Even a friendly conversation which cannot be at any given moment be broken off voluntarily with complete arbitrariness has something illiberal about it. An artist, however, who is able and wants to express himself completely, who keeps nothing to himself and would wish to say everything he knows, is very much to be pitied.”

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Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.”

Way Artist Wish Process Natural Music Is Track Remix

Author:Justin Broadrick

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