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Artists Quotes (page 40)

Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his conscious reflection, his progressive steps, mysterious even to himself, should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Rainer Maria Rilke
Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentratio? tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils Francis Bacon
Ayn Rand quote: "Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an..."
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments. Ayn Rand
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. Ursula K. Le Guin
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails James Joyce
Pablo Picasso quote: "All Children are Artists"
All Children are Artists Pablo Picasso
My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker. Thomas Hardy
But secretly I knew I had been transformed, moved by the revelation that human beings create art, that to be an artist was to see what others could not. Patti Smith
Emile Zola quote: "If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist,..."
If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud. Emile Zola
Only someone who doesn’t understand art tells an artist their art somehow failed. How the fuck can art fail? Art can’t be graded, because it’s going to mean something different to everyone. You can’t apply a mathematical absolute to art because there is no one formula for self-expression. Kevin Smith
He suggested I play golf, but finally agreed to give me something that, he said, "would really work"; and going to a cabinet, he produced a vial of violet-blue capsules banded with dark purple at one end, which, he said, had just been placed on the market and were intended not for neurotics whom a draft of water could calm if properly administered, but only for great sleepless artists who had to die for a few hours in order to live for centuries. Vladimir Nabokov
If [modern artists] hadn’t lobbied for endless subsidies, they would have starved or been forced to go to work long ago. Because the ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for ‘art’ that leaves him unmoved. Yevgeny Zamyatin
Robert Louis Stevenson quote: "In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical..."
In many ways an artistic nature unfits a man for a practical existence. Robert Louis Stevenson
Patti Smith quote: "I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I..."
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one. Patti Smith
How could anybody think of Bach as 'cold' when these [cello] suites seem to shine with the most glittering kind of poetry," Casals said. "As I got on with the study I discovered a new world of space and beauty... the feelings I experienced were among the purest and most intense in my artistic life! Pablo Casals

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