239 quotes found
“I must not undervalue my work simply because I enjoy it. A working artist understands his worth and lives by it.”
“The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.”
“And in uttering thatExcellently executed truthYou become an artist too”
“Artists, like criminals, are dependent on a jury.”
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”
“This guy! I plead the fifth. This guy is nuts.- EminemDope questions, man. Very insightful, very thoughtful.- Guru (Gang Starr)You like a Psychiatrist or some shit? This shit is just coming out but...”
“We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin's music lives! We care b...”
“The God who impoverished himself is also the God of abundance, and somehow, perhaps at times nonsensically, Christians are called to live out of an ethic not of scarcity but of abundancean abundanc...”
“We [artists] aren't people, not the way most people are. We're just...carriers. Little boats bringing goods from foreign lands.”
“How does an artist learn enough about life to fill a thimble?""Soli, I'm going to tell you. He needs to go rub his soul against life. ...”
“Every artist gets asked the question, Where do you get your ideas? The honest artist answers, I steal them.”
“Thats what writers and artists and creators do, boy. Listen to the Void and try to hear dead folks thoughts. Feel their pain. The pain of living folks too. Finding a muse is just an artist or holy ...”
“The painter knew the mirror lied. And the canvas told the truth.”
“The space that I can call mine, that isn't full of Henry, is so small that my ideas have become small.”
“Don't separate 'real' life from 'creative' life.”
“In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.”
“Such meeting reveal that which we all darkly suspect about those whose art we have loved: that they are unlikely to be whatever it is we imagine them to be.”
“I have always been jealous of artists. The smell of the studio, the names of the various tools, the look of a half-finished canvas all shout of creation. What do writers have in comparison? Only th...”
“I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life.”
“He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old mastersnot because he was fully convinced of their lofty merit, but so as to shove the...”
