Artist Quotes
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"You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear thorough the search."
"Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out."
"Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I've told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to."
"The artist's job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence."
"Together kabobs make the world better than all the Bobs combined. Well, at least ever since Bob Ross moved on to the land of the happy trees."
"A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains."
"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."
"I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation."
"Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism."
"Create with the heart; build with the mind."
"Only by examining our personal biases can we truly grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we truly grow as people."
"The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well."
"The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it."
"The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found."
"One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light."
"An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours."
"Your life is a movie. You are the main character. You say your scripts and act to your lines. Of course you do your lines in each scene. There is a hidden camera and a director who you can ask for help anytime up above."
"Dreams. They start in your beautiful mind. Think of beautiful things and it will manifest into actions because your body will listen to you. Like it always does."
"A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity."
"The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything."
"In such a person, sadness breeds purpose; finding inspiration in the darkness and often times, I believe, they will impress a hell onto their own lives in order to re-create it, that others might suffer the experience from the comfort of their armchairs. - Quote from Her Past's Present."
"Knowledge was scattered treasure, education organized it into art, commerce and science."
"Closed eyes cannot see the light"
"Be a great artist especially when you draw your life’s picture."
"Closed eyes cannot see light"
"Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh"
"The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them."
"I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are."
"Choosing to be an artist . . . is choosing to mine deep caverns. It's like getting lost in the darkness and spending the rest of your life trying to find your way."
"Bleed me of art, and there won't be enough liquid left in me to spit! [Michelangelo Buonorotti]"
"The awakening an artist must be ruthless, not only with herself but with others."
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
"When you steal from an artist you are stealing their blood, sweat and tears."
"The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for?"
"The Artist always has the masters in his eyes."
"The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell."
Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
"When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages."
"Talent & skills are useless & won't get you anywhere, without lot of practise, commitment & prioritization."
"True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch."
"Be a worthy worker and work will come."
"In these electric times the criminal receives a cosmopolitan reputation. It is a privilege he shares with few other artists."
"The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't"
"Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt"
"A steampunk nationBaby pollution rises up then the loving comes arraigning 'causeOur art's official and only partially artificialAnd our heart's in the middle of sharp hardened shards of metal butThere's not where it settlesBecause it's beating to the steaming of God's hottest pot or kettleAnd now we face it, this creation we made toTo save our craving for a synthetic rebelnation it'sOur safeway they make into a pathetic revelationIn our steampunk nationOur steampunk nation"
"I mean, reality sucks. The world is a cancer, and shits so bad it’s scary. Everything’s filthy. But you know what? One day, it’s not going to be here. So be glad you know what life is. You’re alive. Live."
"Spirit is a child, the tune of dancing feet its lullaby."
"When you judge your art with number of likes you get in response to it, you're killing the artist within, and giving rise to an entertainer."
"Personality begins where comparison leaves off. Be unique. Be memorable. Be confident. Be proud."
"He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god."
"she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete"
Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
"...unforgivingly, and forcefully magnificent..."
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