ARTIST QUOTES II

quotations about artists

Artists quote

The artist's mind and eye, as the poet's, were subjected to rigorous training. Henceforth, the artist's hands were to create the objects projected from his mind, after its process of selection and alchemy.

ANNA BALAKIAN

Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute

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Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

E. A. BUCCHIANERI

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly


An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

HEINRICH BOLL

The Clown

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My job as an artist is to tell the stories that hadn't been told, my own personal ones that are intimate and secret, and also the ones that possibly we see every day but we really don't see every day.

ENDIA BEAL

"What Does an Artist Look Like?", Yes! Weekly, March 2, 2016


An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

GEORGE SANTAYANA

The Life of Reason

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The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

MARINA ABRAMOVIC

The Economist, Sep. 15, 2010

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A child when afraid thrusts out his arms, and those that are falling hold out the hand to passers-by for aid; similarly, creative artists project their sorrows and joys and all their sudden pain which is greater than their own strength. They hold them out like a net with which to ensnare, like a rope by which to escape. Like beggars on the street weighed down with misery and want, they give their words to passers-by. Each syllable gives relief because they thus project their own life into that of strangers. Their fortune and misfortune, their rejoicing and complaint, too heavy for them, are sown in the destiny of others.

STEFAN ZWEIG

prelude, Paul Verlaine

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I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.

E. A. BUCCHIANERI

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly


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

EMILE ZOLA

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Others besides practicing artists have imaginations. But most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

SHERWOOD ANDERSON

"A Note on Realism", The Literary Review, Oct. 25, 1924

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With most people, not describable as artists, all the finer part of their vitality goes into sex. They become third-rate poets during their courtship. All their instincts of drama come out freshly with their wives. The artist is he in whom this emotionality normally absorbed by sex is so strong that it claims a newer and more exclusive field of deployment. Its first creation is the Artist himself, a new sort of person; the creative man.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

Tarr

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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

EMILE ZOLA

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

ROBERT HUGHES

"Modernism's Patriarch", Time Magazine, Jun. 10, 1996

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight.... A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

ARNOLD BENNETT

The Journal of Arnold Bennett

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All the best artists have had a thing for pure black -- Turner, Manet, Goya. This black is like dynamite in the art world.

CHRISTIAN FURR

"Artists at war after top sculptor is given exclusive rights to the purest black paint ever which is used on stealth jets", Daily Mail, February 28, 2016


Artwork and artists are often expected to serve as enlightened beacons, guiding visitors over a bridge of dialogue between East and West, us and them, allowing us to see a "beautiful" side of an otherwise negatively perceived culture of political violence, intolerance, and irrationality.

LIVIA ALEXANDER

"Tracing Tradition in a Survey of Six Iranian Artists", Hyperallergic, March 18, 2016


An artist should be as impartial as God.

WYNDHAM LEWIS

Tarr


Artists and researchers are linked closely together because they think creatively. They are very sensitive to their surroundings, to what's going on, to disruptions and tremors in our environment and society. Artists are researchers, and researchers are artists.

ANGELIKA TROJNARSKI

"Hello, Angelika: When it comes to cutting-edge art, CentralTrak casts its net internationally", Dallas Morning News, March 28, 2016


All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.

JAMES BALDWIN

Esquire, April 1960

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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

ROMAIN ROLLAND

Jean-Christophe

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