The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the co...
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown.
The mind of an artist never sleeps, because dreaming is when they do their best work.
Then Martine said: "So yuo will be poor now all your life, Babette?"Poor?" said Babette. She smiled as if to herself. "No, I shall never be poor. I told you that I am a great artist. A great artist, M...
i want to never settle for anything less than my soul on paper.
An artist is a sort of emotional or spiritual historian. His role is to make you realize the doom and glory of knowing who you are and what you are. He has to tell, because nobody else in the world
But we artists have to be selfish you know, after all, with each painting, we die a little.
The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
Good talent needs a showcase to prove its worth.There are many cases across the world across arts where good and talented artists have disappeared bcz no one saw them.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
Writing is like gardening. Planting, watering, and weeding are not enough. You have to prune if you want growth.
The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.
When I feel too much and the universe aches inside of me.
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 athl...
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
Art both expresses and gratifies the lowest part of the soul, and feeds and enlivens base emotions which ought to be left to wither.
Art is the medium through which you express the inexpressible, convey the unconveyable, transporting the audience in different realms of existence erasing their mental identities. Any effort by the ar...
Feet on the ground, head in the clouds. That's how giants walk.
There really is no such thing as Art. There are only artists.
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