Learn to listen. It's amazing the ideas that pop into your head while people are saying them into your ear.
There is always, in the fine arts, a physical interface between the artist's esthetic vision and the material result he seeks. The interface may be the application of brush to canvas, chisel to marble, bow to string... It may be the control of voice in song or the control of body in dance. It is the mastery of the interface that comprises the artistry; it is what constitutes the 'art' in fine art.
A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
In sinners and repenters you have the original division of labor.
It's getting harder and harder to worry needlessly.
One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.
Life is a brief opportunity to do something prehumously.
In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.
I guess, when you get down to it, a loving touch compensates for an unskilled hand about everywhere except in an airplane cockpit.
What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.
I believe in a real, physical world. I figure if the world existed only in my mind, it would pay more attention to me.
What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.
The road to success is wherever people need another road.
Science can reconstruct Tyrannosaurus Rex from a fossilized bone and a fancied footprint, but it can't reconstruct God from the whole of creation.
To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.
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