Artist Quotes - Page 10

• One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• The nation that complacently and fearfully allows its artists and writers to become suspected rather than respected is no longer regarded as a nation possessed with humor or depth.

  James Thurber

  Humor, Depth, Possessed

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

  Lionel Trilling

  Art, Cynical, Immature

  In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16

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• There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspiring, Wisdom, Art

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• Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

  Jack Kroll

  People, Joy, Pure

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• The artist is not a 'Sunday child' for whom everything immediately succeeds. He does not have the right to live without duty. The task that is assigned to him is painful, it is a heavy cross for him to bear.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Children, Sunday, Doe

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• Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Departed, Dies

  'The Poets' (1876)

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• Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

  Joyce Cary

  Mean, Law, Next

  Joyce Cary (1957). “THE HORSE'S MOUTH”

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• In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.

  Carl Sagan

  Art, Nature, Space

  "Contact". Book by Carl Sagan. Chapter 24, p. 431, 1985.

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• I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Looks, Painting, Easier

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• I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.

  Jane Badler

  Helping, Feels

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• Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

  Edwin Starr

  Country, Max, May

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• Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

  Alison Moyet

  Nice, Thinking, Tunes

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• An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

  Jean Cocteau

  Art, Speak, Plant

  Newsweek, May 16, 1955.

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• I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.12, St. Martin's Press

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• I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspiring, Art, Flower

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.23, Infobase Publishing

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• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Business, Acting

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS

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• The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

  Novalis

  Music, Art, Architecture

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• As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

  Pablo Picasso

  Needs, Done, Canvas

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• The artist uses the talent he has, wishing he had more talent. The talent uses the artist it has, wishing it had more artist.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Wish, Use

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• Ease is the enemy of the artist. When things get too easy, you're in trouble.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Enemy, Ease

  "Chuck Close: 'Important Works on Paper'". Interview with Stephanie Wright Hession, www.sfgate.com. September 4, 2013.

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• I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.

  Glenn Frey

  Thinking, People, Musician

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  Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

  Salvador Dali

  Funny, Music, Sarcastic

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• Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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