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Artist Quotes (page 31)

Alexander McQueen quote: "I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to..."
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists. I have to force people to look at things. Alexander McQueen
Seth Godin quote: "At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you..."
At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet. Seth Godin
The color of one's creed, neckties, eyes, thoughts, manners, speech, is sure to meet somewhere in time of space with a fatal objection from a mob that hates that particular tone. And the more brilliant, the more unusual the man, the nearer he is to the stake. Stranger always rhymes with danger. The meek prophet, the enchanter in his cave, the indignant artist, the nonconforming little schoolboy, all share in the same sacred danger. And this being so, let us bless them, let us bless the freak;... Vladimir Nabokov
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking. Brooks Atkinson
To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense... John Gardner
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 my cell. Pablo Picasso
I have nothing but contempt for the people who despise money. They are hypocrites or fools. Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five. Without an adequate income half the possibilities of life are shut off. The only thing to be careful about is that you do not pay more than a shilling for the shilling you earn. You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not... W. Somerset Maugham
Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist. Chuck Palahniuk
Martha Graham quote: "No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just..."
No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time. Martha Graham
Auguste Rodin quote: "The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble,..."
The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist! Auguste Rodin
This is why the shaman is the remote ancestor of the poet and artist. Our need to feel part of the world seems to demand that we express ourselves through creative activity. The ultimate wellsprings of this creativity are hidden in the mystery of language. Shamanic ecstasy is an act of surrender that authenticates both the individual self and that which is surrendered to, the mystery of being. Because our maps of reality are determined by our present circumstances, we tend to lose awareness... Terence McKenna
Viktor E. Frankl quote: "In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and..."
In his creative work the artist is dependent on sources and resources deriving from the spiritual unconscious. Viktor E. Frankl
John Barth quote: "Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for..."
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene. John Barth
James Joyce quote: "The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful...."
The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question. James Joyce
I feel like I'm in a film about a struggling artist who keeps getting up at all hours of the night to look at his big, blank empty canvas. And in a way I am. Except that i'm not struggling. I'm Hector Kipling. I might be getting up at all hours of the night to look at my big, blank, empty canvas, but I am not fucking struggling. David Thewlis

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