Artist Quotes - Page 13

• That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

  James Taylor

  Motivational, Art, Attention

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Ego

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• Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

  Nikki Sixx

  Young, Industry

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• Artists of many diverse types began using simple forms to their own ends.

  Sol LeWitt

  Simple, Ends, Form

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• I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.

  Jeff Koons

  Trying, Levels, Messengers

  Journal of Contemporary Art - Online 1(1): 18 - 23, 1988.

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• For as long as I can remember I have suffered from a deep feeling of anxiety which I have tried to express in my art.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Long, Anxiety

  Ragna Thiis Stang, Edvard Munch (1979). “Edvard Munch: The Man and the Artist”

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• I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc.

  Jackson Pollock

  Usual, Tools, Etc

  Jackson Pollock (2003). “Jackson Pollock. Englische Ausgabe.”, Kehrer Verlag

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• I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

  Jackson Pollock

  Color, Drawing, Finals

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• The essential of painting is that 'something', that 'ethereal glue,' that 'intermediary product' which the artist exudes with all his creative being and which he has the power to place, to encrust, to impregnate into the pictorial matter of the painting.

  Yves Klein

  Creative, Serendipity, Essentials

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  I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.

  Michelangelo

  Life, Art, Creativity

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• The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

  Sylvia Plath

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Art, Moving

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Jobs, History, Witness

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• The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Art, Eye, Soul

  Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Concerning the Spiritual in Art”, p.68, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

  Odilon Redon

  Art, Pain, Looks

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• I dream a lot. I do more painting when I'm not painting. It's in the subconscious.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Dream, Art, Painting

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means.

  William Faulkner

  Art, Philosophy, Mean

  George G. Stewart, Robert W. Hamblin, William Faulkner (2009). “Yoknapatawpha, images and voices: a photographic study of Faulkner's County, with passages from classic William Faulkner texts”, Univ of South Carolina Pr

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• Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Powerful, Writing

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• I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

  Lord Acton

  Beautiful, Funny Inspirational, Business

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• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Power, Political

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• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Art, Sacrifice, Self

  The Sacred Wood "Tradition and the Individual Talent" (1920)

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• The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

  James Lee Burke

  Vision, Remember, Never Lose Faith

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• The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to.

  Frida Kahlo

  Feminist Art, Needs, Consideration

  Christina Burrus, Frida Kahlo (2008). “Frida Kahlo: 'I Paint My Reality'”

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• Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Art, Hurt, Memorable

  Heat of the Day (1949) ch. 16

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  Art is what you can get away with.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Freedom, Creativity

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