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Artistic Quotes (page 43)

The great artists of finance like Morgan and Rockefeller weren't deflected. They wanted and got money, just simple money. What they did with it afterward is another matter. I've always felt they got scared of the ghost they raised and tried to buy it off. John Steinbeck
...most cannibalism is not a primitive or even a bestial habit. It is artificial and even artistic; a sort of art for art's sake. Men do not do it because they do not think it horrible; but, on the contrary, because they do think it horrible...It is by no means clear, so far as I know that the Eskimos ever indulged in human sacrifice. They were not civilised enough. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Bono quote: "Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for..."
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief. Bono
Oscar Wilde quote: "It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more..."
It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. Oscar Wilde
For a painter, the Mecca of the world, for study, for inspiration and for living is here on this star called Paris. Just look at it, no wonder so many artists have come here and called it home. Brother, if you can't paint in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter. Alan Jay Lerner
...I can not help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and color tell us of form and color-that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist more completely than it ever reveals hi m Oscar Wilde
Mahatma Gandhi quote: "All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a..."
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. Mahatma Gandhi
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder..."
The duty of the artist lies in keeping alive a sense of wonder in the world. Gilbert K. Chesterton
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. Oscar Wilde
Our interpreting the universe as an artifact absolutely requires that we posit an author for it, or a celestial fimmaker, dramatist, painter, sculptor, composer, architect, or choreographer. And no one has been willing openly to posit such an artist for the universe since the American transcedentalists and before them the Medieval European philosophers. Annie Dillard
The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth. Dean Koontz
And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life's labor, and which was yet no ruin. He had caught a far other butterfly than this. When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality. Nathaniel Hawthorne
There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire... Thomas Mann
Chuck Jones quote: "Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the..."
Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. Chuck Jones
H. L. Mencken quote: "The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom..."
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. H. L. Mencken

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