239 quotes found
“Nobody, not even artists, understood art. What speed has to do with it. How much work it takes, year after year, building the skills, the trust in the process, more work probably than any Olympic a...”
“We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of ...”
“Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.”
“He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.”
“What did I think? Right then I was thinking about my father, specifically his habit of treating everyone with courtesy and consideration, of how he used to stop on lower Division Street and convers...”
“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began...”
“Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very po...”
“Morning birdsong filled the room. For all his high opinion of birds, privileged among God's creatures, still, deep in his heart, the Emperor did not trust them, just as he did not trust artists.”
“When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.”
“Artists," he said, "are people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my marriage. But by golly, I can make this square of canvas, or this eight-and-a-half-by-eleven piece...”
“Artists could never, would never, harm anybody. Theyre too busy painting. Same with ad drunks. They might be a bit useless at functional tasks, they may break things (small objects, precious object...”
“But why? Why do you care about our classs history?" "I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides Locks self in room and draws all day. Even art schools wont ta...”
“The artist and the politician stand at opposite poles. The artist enhances life by his prolonged concentration upon it, while the politician emphasizes the impersonal aspect of life by his attempts...”
“It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air, has caught a whiff of something lethal.”
“The artist, to my way of thinking, is a monstrosity, something outside nature.”
“A Photographer is limited to some types of Photography. An Artist is able to do any types of photography. It's just a matter of choice and feelings.”
“Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps.”
“I found that those friends of mine who welcomed the unseen into the realm of their seen offered immediate understanding. Some are Christians, some are not. Most are artists of some kind or other; a...”
“...and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist.”
“A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste”
