Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief.
The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
- William Ernest Henley
They'll talk about me showing cleavage and my belly, but they don't say anything
about the artists who accept an award and can't even talk because they're so drugged out.
After the awards show, I go home, drink my tea and go to bed.
- Britney Spears on the media
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write
if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What one can be, one must be.
- Abraham Moslow
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be
the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
- T. S. Eliot
As artists, we must learn to be self-nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously
replenish our creative resources as we draw on them.
- Julia Cameron
Art is born in attention. Its midwife is detail.
- Julia Cameron
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Artistic creativity is a whirlpool of imagination that swirls in the depths of the mind.
- Robert Toth
Art is not living. It is a use of living. The artist has the ability to take that living and
use it in a certain way, and produce art.
- Audre Lorde
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art.
Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
- Margot Fonteyn (1919-____) English dancer
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time. It is just that the others are behind the time.
- Martha Graham
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have
the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist,
the understanding of the philosopher the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the
scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
- Leo Buscaglia
Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.
- G.K. Chesterton
Good art maketh glad the heart of man.
Jeff Krewson
Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is take
these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to irreconcilable,
and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.
- Katherine Anne Porter (1894-1980) US novelist, short-story writer
Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
- Pablo Picasso
Art is a jealous mistress.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Art produces ugly things which frequently become beautiful with time.
Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.
- Jean Cocteau French poet, novelist, director
I tell you, the more I think, the more I feel that there is nothing
more truly artistic than to love people.
- Vincent van Gogh
My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk,
you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.
- Pablo Picasso
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a
performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
- Louise Nevelson US sculptor, painter
Ars Longa, Vita Brevis - Art (is) Long, Life (is) Short
- Hippocrates
White. A blank page or canvas. So many possibilities.
- Sunday in the Park with George, by Stephen Sondhiem and James Lapine
Art is just a pigment of your imagination.
- Tony Follari Comedian
Rubbish in, rubbish out does not apply to a junk Artist.
- Tony Follari Comedian
Let your natural inclination be road sign that will take you to your destiny.
-Robert Richard Toth, Artist
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