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Artistic Quotes (page 57)

She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a caf after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that. Guy de Maupassant
Kate Chopin quote: "And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the..."
And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul. Kate Chopin
In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful... Rainer Maria Rilke
Oscar Wilde quote: "You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal..."
You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. Oscar Wilde
At some point you have to set aside snobbery and what you think is culture and recognize that any random episode of Friends is probably better, more uplifting for the human spirit, than ninety-nine percent of the poetry or drama or fiction or history every published. Think of that. Of course yes, Tolstoy and of course yes Keats and blah blah and yes indeed of course yes. But we're living in an age that has a tremendous richness of invention. And some of the most inventive people get no... Nicholson Baker
Friedrich Schiller quote: "But how is the artist to protect himself against the..."
But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides? Friedrich Schiller
Oscar Wilde quote: "To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim."
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. Oscar Wilde
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so..."
A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel. Fyodor Dostoevsky
You are an over-excited little man, with a need for self-expression far beyond the scope of your natural gifts. This is not discreditable. Neither does it make you an artist. Tom Stoppard
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and... Mark Twain
Bono quote: "There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an..."
There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place. Bono
Not to waste time on nonsense. Not to be taken in by conjurors and hoodoo artists with their talk about incantations and exorcism and all the rest of it. Not to be obsessed with quail-fighting or other crazes like that. Marcus Aurelius
Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer Rainer Maria Rilke
An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. Edith Wharton
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. ... The success of later Shakespeare is the success of spells, where every element, however uneven, however incredible, is fastened to the next with perfect authority. The enchanted world shimmers but does not waver. A Midsummer Night's Dream is the first of his plays to accomplish this, The Tempest is enchantment's apotheosis. Jeanette Winterson

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