Artist Quotes - Page 6

• The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Passion, Alive

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• The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.

  Craig Raine

  Simple, Done, Tasks

  Craig Raine (2012). “Haydn and The Valve Trumpet”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

  Bill Griffith

  Problem, Doing Good, Artwork

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• We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Truth, Creative

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.817, Best Books on

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• Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

  Franz Liszt

  Inspiring, Art, Destiny

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• The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

  James A. Michener

  Profound, Arrogance

  "The Michener Phenomenon". Interview with Caryn James, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 1985.

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• Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.

  Andrew Wyeth

  Art, Work, Thinking

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• It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

  Loren Eiseley

  Art, Men, Tragedy

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• I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.

  Emile Zola

  Art, Loud

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.

  Martha Graham

  Motivational, Dance, Wisdom

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

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• An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

  Paul Valery

  Art, Abandon, Creating Art

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• Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

  Ted Lange

  Thinking, Storytelling, Should

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• Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Metronomes, This Society

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• If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

  Vaclav Havel

  Jobs, Honesty, Hero

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• Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Hurt, People, Insane

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• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Art, Religion

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• It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work.

  Henry Moore

  Art, Jobs, Mistake

  Henry Moore, Alan G. Wilkinson (2002). “Henry Moore-- Writings and Conversations”, p.20, Univ of California Press

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• When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

  Jackson Pollock

  Mean, Men, Games

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

  Diana Krall

  Art, Imagination, Creeps

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• Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.

  Erica Jong

  Earth, Housewife, Household

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• It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.409, Princeton University Press

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• The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.

  David Hockney

  Cheating, Art, Sake

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• What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

  John Updike

  Teacher, Appreciation, Art

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• The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Wisdom for the Soul : Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing‎" by Larry Chang, (p. 55), 2006.

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