239 quotes found
“Love is an art and this world lack artists.”
“The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.”
“Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
“Are artists and writers the only people entitled to lives of their own?”
“There is no ready vocabulary to describe the ways in which artists become artists, no recognition that artists must learn to be who they are (even as they cannot help being who they are.) We have a...”
“I've been strongly influenced, in technique as well as subject matter, by some of the early 20th-century book illustrators Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac in particular, Burne-Jones and other Pre-...”
“After all, Paul Robeson said, Artists are the radical voice of civilization. Each and every one of you in this room, with your gifts and your power and your skills, could perhaps change the way in ...”
“Writers and artists build by hand little worlds that they hope might effect change in real minds, in the real world where stories are read. A story can make us cry and laugh, break our hearts, or m...”
“Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.”
“Art the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised”
“I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.”
“Hes a pagan! Im an artist! Were naturally sympathetic!”
“On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.”
“Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind.”
“The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer”
“The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds”
“To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.”
“For he has faith enough, he feels, if he were really to delve into himself, faith enough to move mountains, but he cannot manage to put his back into it. Once in a while the need to create wells up...”
“Catching creativity is like catching butterflies fast-flying, bright-colored sparks darting here and there, it requires quick wits, good eyes and desire to net them. And once you have them, you ne...”
“Every great artist gives birth to a new universe, in which the familiar things look the way they have never before looked to anyone.”
