artist

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
2b1464b	The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.	inspirational achievement goal artist	William Faulkner
71cd389	The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.	object beautiful question artist creation	James Joyce
13d0dbe	I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.	musician world poetry humanity music songs life truth inspirational lyrics songwriting art connection song-lyrics artist	Criss Jami
67723ea	I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.	artist creativity	Mark Z. Danielewski
71c60e3	The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination	criticism imagination genius-stupidity nerdery critics art genius nerds nerd artist	Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2a5faab	But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.	bohemian bohemianism artistic artist	Philip K. Dick
c12b362	To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand--that is art.	artist	James Joyce
d1d1722	The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.	beauty artist	Charles Baudelaire
0c9efcf	An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.	inspiration creative-process ideas artist creativity	Irving Stone
cf4b7d0	...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.	writer inspiration artist	Steven Pressfield
d22aaa8	During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I had been on a trip. I almost never get this feeling any other way. I once spent sixteen hours making 150 wedding invitations by hand and was not for one instance of that time tempted to eat or look at my watch. By contrast, if seated at the computer, I check my email conservatively 30,000 times a day. When I am writing, I must have a snack, call a friend, or abuse myself every ten minutes. I used to think that this was nothing more than the difference between those things we do for love and those we do for money. But that can't be the whole story. I didn't always write for a living, and even back when it was my most fondly held dream to one day be able to do so, writing was always difficult. Writing is like pulling teeth. From my dick.	writer writing humor procrastination artist	David Rakoff
1cf7eee	If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does.	reality perception artist	Tom Robbins
04d01f6	In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...	pain memories faith hope grace-and-favor grace creator artist memory creation	Madeleine L'Engle
7ed0dcb	Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...	creative living life career vocation artist creativity	Madeleine L'Engle
724181f	A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.	generation creator artist	Gertrude Stein
9d372c1	Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]	michelangelo artist	Irving Stone
6167e05	Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.	story writing music song motivational philosophy wisdom inspirational advertisement album alliterations amit-kalantri amit-kalantri-quotes amit-kalantri-writer background-music background-score band catch-lines catchphrases concert drums michael-jackson movie-dialogue music-director music-industry music-quotes musicians playing pop script-writing scriptwriting speechwriting tag-lines vocal singer book-writing essay script instruments sound proverbs rock creative-writing rhetoric guitar singing novel-writing movie public-speaking quotes tune movies melody characters knowledge speech artist soul touch	Amit Kalantri
61b2b07	She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.	gratification watching pride artist	Anne Brontë
6b42c35	"In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful. The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell." Page 68"	perseverance creative-block marine writers-block author focus artist	Steven Pressfield
1f4b405	The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.	ruthless artist	Steven Pressfield
6145350	No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.	craft artist	William Goldman
772933a	Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.	artists-life artist insight	Orhan Pamuk
ceb6917	The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life. Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl.	magic artist	Tom Robbins
f0eea85	When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.	catholic artist writers	Flannery O'Connor
481d38b	Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do something it did not want to do, it would fight him, and his chisel would slip, or dig in too deeply, spoiling the shapes. But once he had got to know the lump of rock in front of him he could transform it. The more difficult the task, the more fascinated he was. He was beginning to feel that the decorative carving demanded by Tom was too easy. Zigzags, lozenges, dogtooth, spirals and plain roll moldings bored him, and even these leaves were rather stiff and repetitive. He wanted to curve natural-looking foliage, pliable and irregular, and copy the different shapes of real leaves, oak and ash and birch.	artist	Ken Follett
a84b370	The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.	musician music artist	Arthur Phillips
27d1aab	"Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too."	literature reading writer writing the-writing-life art writing-advice write artistry read discipline reader artist	Annie Dillard
865b4fc	You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in spite of it, out of anything, any material given to him. The torments and hells of [crazy men], are not for you.	nourishment-of-soul diary instincts artist	Anaïs Nin
1b7e8b4	Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sage, a virtuoso, a good chap, a man of honour, a hard case, a spendthrift, an opportunist, a raisonneur; to be very rich, to be very poor, to possess a thousand mistresses, to win the heart of one love to whom he was ever faithful, to be on the best of terms with all men, to avenge savagely the lightest affront, to live to a hundred full of years and honour, to die young and unknown but recognized the following day as the most neglected genius of the age. Each of these ambitions had something to recommend it from one angle or another, with the possible exception of being poor - the only aim Trapnel achieved with unqualified mastery - and even being poor, as Trapnel himself asserted, gave the right to speak categorically when poverty was discussed by people like Evadne Clapham.	poverty dandy artist	Anthony Powell
5851d88	Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.	beauty family true-culture universal nation artist	Chaim Potok
2384198	The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.	writing write artist	Steven Pressfield
aa885e1	An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.	self-knowledge humanity standing-out artist	Chaim Potok
f73c888	We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.	beauty-myth authentic-self authentic-living novels painting women-s-strength artist	Naomi Wolf
59a4b0b	One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.	artists artists-life sculpture artist	Irving Stone
5ed73f2	I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.	artist	Hermann Hesse
087b8a5	My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.	war switzerland artist	Tom Stoppard
790555f	The painter copies this bed from one point of view. He is thus at three removes from reality. He does not understand the bed, he does not measure it, he could not make it.	artist	Iris Murdoch
cdf460a	Ego den mporo na katalabo pos einai dunato na einai kaneis kallitekhnes kai na men prospathei sunekhos na ginei teleios.	artist	Iris Murdoch
401f35b	She puts away four small plastic cups of red wine and then stares at a painting of a topless girl with a large silver sword for a half hour and then she begins to think: You call this art? This isn't art! This is a joke! All of you are a joke! Fuck you and fuck Jeff Koons and the rest of those '80s art-star wannabes. Where's the art that makes people weep? Where's the art that makes people want to go to church? None of this is the least bit interesting. All of this stuff, all of this is so self-aware. It's for ironic art snobs. I want something brilliant. I want something stunning. I want something that makes me look in wonder...	artists artist-quote art-quote artist	Joe Meno
5058e66	Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty stomach is better than a full one, Van Gogh, and a broken heart is better than happiness. Never forget that!	suffering happiness life lust-for-life starrynight vangogh suffer artist	Irving Stone

2b1464b

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

inspirational achievement goal artist

William Faulkner

71cd389

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

object beautiful question artist creation

James Joyce

13d0dbe

I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

musician world poetry humanity music songs life truth inspirational lyrics songwriting art connection song-lyrics artist

Criss Jami

67723ea

I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way.

artist creativity

Mark Z. Danielewski

71c60e3

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

criticism imagination genius-stupidity nerdery critics art genius nerds nerd artist

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2a5faab

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

bohemian bohemianism artistic artist

Philip K. Dick

c12b362

To speak of these things and to try to understand their nature and, having understood it, to try slowly and humbly and constantly to express, to press out again, from the gross earth or what it brings forth, from sound and shape and colour which are the prison gates of our soul, an image of the beauty we have come to understand--that is art.

artist

James Joyce

d1d1722

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.

beauty artist

Charles Baudelaire

0c9efcf

An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.

inspiration creative-process ideas artist creativity

Irving Stone

cf4b7d0

...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.

writer inspiration artist

Steven Pressfield

d22aaa8

During the act of making something, I experience a kind of blissful absence of the self and a loss of time. When I am done, I return to both feeling as restored as if I had been on a trip. I almost never get this feeling any other way. I once spent sixteen hours making 150 wedding invitations by hand and was not for one instance of that time tempted to eat or look at my watch. By contrast, if seated at the computer, I check my email conservatively 30,000 times a day. When I am writing, I must have a snack, call a friend, or abuse myself every ten minutes. I used to think that this was nothing more than the difference between those things we do for love and those we do for money. But that can't be the whole story. I didn't always write for a living, and even back when it was my most fondly held dream to one day be able to do so, writing was always difficult. Writing is like pulling teeth. From my dick.

writer writing humor procrastination artist

David Rakoff

1cf7eee

If there's a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does.

reality perception artist

Tom Robbins

04d01f6

In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...

pain memories faith hope grace-and-favor grace creator artist memory creation

Madeleine L'Engle

7ed0dcb

Creativity is a way of living life, no matter what our vocation, or how we earn our living. Creativity is not limited to the arts...

creative living life career vocation artist creativity

Madeleine L'Engle

724181f

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

generation creator artist

Gertrude Stein

9d372c1

Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]

michelangelo artist

Irving Stone

6167e05

Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.

story writing music song motivational philosophy wisdom inspirational advertisement album alliterations amit-kalantri amit-kalantri-quotes amit-kalantri-writer background-music background-score band catch-lines catchphrases concert drums michael-jackson movie-dialogue music-director music-industry music-quotes musicians playing pop script-writing scriptwriting speechwriting tag-lines vocal singer book-writing essay script instruments sound proverbs rock creative-writing rhetoric guitar singing novel-writing movie public-speaking quotes tune movies melody characters knowledge speech artist soul touch

Amit Kalantri

61b2b07

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

gratification watching pride artist

Anne Brontë

6b42c35

"In my younger days dodging the draft, I somehow wound up in the Marine Corps. There's a myth that Marine training turns baby-faced recruits into bloodthirsty killers. Trust me, the Marine Corps is not that efficient. What it does teach, however, is a lot more useful. The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is invaluable for an artist. Marines love to be miserable. Marines derive a perverse satisfaction in having colder chow, crappier equipment, and higher casualty rates than any outfit of dogfaces, swab jockeys, or flyboys, all of whom they despise. Why? Because these candy-asses don't know how to be miserable. The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation. The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. He has to take pride in being more miserable than any soldier or swabbie or jet jockey. Because this is war, baby. And war is hell." Page 68"

perseverance creative-block marine writers-block author focus artist

Steven Pressfield

1f4b405

The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others.

ruthless artist

Steven Pressfield

6145350

No. Not yet. A craftsman only. But I dream to be an artist. I pray that someday, if I work with enough care, if I am very very lucky, I will make a weapon that is a work of art. Call me an artist then, and I will answer.

craft artist

William Goldman

772933a

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

artists-life artist insight

Orhan Pamuk

ceb6917

The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life. Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl.

magic artist

Tom Robbins

f0eea85

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

catholic artist writers

Flannery O'Connor

481d38b

Jack was too absorbed in his work to hear the bell. He was mesmerized by the challenge of making soft, round shapes of hard rock. The stone had a will of its own, and if he tried to make it do something it did not want to do, it would fight him, and his chisel would slip, or dig in too deeply, spoiling the shapes. But once he had got to know the lump of rock in front of him he could transform it. The more difficult the task, the more fascinated he was. He was beginning to feel that the decorative carving demanded by Tom was too easy. Zigzags, lozenges, dogtooth, spirals and plain roll moldings bored him, and even these leaves were rather stiff and repetitive. He wanted to curve natural-looking foliage, pliable and irregular, and copy the different shapes of real leaves, oak and ash and birch.

artist

Ken Follett

a84b370

The truth is, anyone who puts so much of herself and her life into art as you do must naturally fear any failure in that art as a potential threat to your life. And so you protect your art more than you protect your health or the common forms of happiness the rest of us have. And you probably have this in common with every artist you admire.

musician music artist

Arthur Phillips

27d1aab

"Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too."

literature reading writer writing the-writing-life art writing-advice write artistry read discipline reader artist

Annie Dillard

865b4fc

You sought to preserve your creative instincts and what would nourish them. But neurosis itself does not nourish the artist, you know; he creates in spite of it, out of anything, any material given to him. The torments and hells of [crazy men], are not for you.

nourishment-of-soul diary instincts artist

Anaïs Nin

1b7e8b4

Trapnel wanted, among other things, to be a writer, a dandy, a lover, a comrade, an eccentric, a sage, a virtuoso, a good chap, a man of honour, a hard case, a spendthrift, an opportunist, a raisonneur; to be very rich, to be very poor, to possess a thousand mistresses, to win the heart of one love to whom he was ever faithful, to be on the best of terms with all men, to avenge savagely the lightest affront, to live to a hundred full of years and honour, to die young and unknown but recognized the following day as the most neglected genius of the age. Each of these ambitions had something to recommend it from one angle or another, with the possible exception of being poor - the only aim Trapnel achieved with unqualified mastery - and even being poor, as Trapnel himself asserted, gave the right to speak categorically when poverty was discussed by people like Evadne Clapham.

poverty dandy artist

Anthony Powell

5851d88

Every artist is a man who has freed himself from his family, his nation, his race. Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.

beauty family true-culture universal nation artist

Chaim Potok

2384198

The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell.

writing write artist

Steven Pressfield

aa885e1

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

self-knowledge humanity standing-out artist

Chaim Potok

f73c888

We need to insist on making culture out of our desire: making paintings, novels, plays and films potent and seductive and authentic enough to undermine and overwhelm the Iron Maiden.

beauty-myth authentic-self authentic-living novels painting women-s-strength artist

Naomi Wolf

59a4b0b

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

artists artists-life sculpture artist

Irving Stone

5ed73f2

I had considered myself some kind of genius and had considerably underestimated the toils and difficulties encountered along the path to an art.

artist

Hermann Hesse

087b8a5

My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

war switzerland artist

Tom Stoppard

790555f

The painter copies this bed from one point of view. He is thus at three removes from reality. He does not understand the bed, he does not measure it, he could not make it.

artist

Iris Murdoch

cdf460a

Ego den mporo na katalabo pos einai dunato na einai kaneis kallitekhnes kai na men prospathei sunekhos na ginei teleios.

artist

Iris Murdoch

401f35b

She puts away four small plastic cups of red wine and then stares at a painting of a topless girl with a large silver sword for a half hour and then she begins to think: You call this art? This isn't art! This is a joke! All of you are a joke! Fuck you and fuck Jeff Koons and the rest of those '80s art-star wannabes. Where's the art that makes people weep? Where's the art that makes people want to go to church? None of this is the least bit interesting. All of this stuff, all of this is so self-aware. It's for ironic art snobs. I want something brilliant. I want something stunning. I want something that makes me look in wonder...

artists artist-quote art-quote artist

Joe Meno

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Because it will make a real artist of you. The more you suffer, the more grateful you ought to be. An empty stomach is better than a full one, Van Gogh, and a broken heart is better than happiness. Never forget that!

suffering happiness life lust-for-life starrynight vangogh suffer artist

Irving Stone