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Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.
Perhaps the artist who seeks dignity above all in his 'historia', ought to represent very few figures; for as paucity of words imparts majesty to a prince, provided histhoughts and orders are understood, so the presence of only the strictly necessary numbers of bodies confers dignity on a picture.
Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail.
Materially make the life of the artist sufficiently miserable to be unattractive, and no one will take to art save those in whom the divine daemon is absolute.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him.
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arousethesleeper, toshakethe complacent pillars ofthe world.He reminds the world of its dark ancestry, and shows the world its present, and points the way to its new birth.He isat oncetheproduct and thepreceptorof his time.
The manwho never in his mind and thoughtstravelled to heaven is no artist.
Glory is to God what style is to an artist To behold God's glory, to sense his style, is the closest you can get this side of Paradise, just as to read King Lear is the closest you can get to Shakespeare. 165
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it.
Art is a form of communication that insinuates.We expect the artist to have more to say than what he communicated and suspect that what he said was a subterfuge for hiding something.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worse to an actress.
The artist must possess the courageous soul that dares and defies.
It isclosing time inthegardens oftheWest and fromnow on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.
An artist's first responsibility is to himself.
You could be a great musician, an innovative and important artist, but nobodycared if youdidn't makethe white people who were in control some money.
An artist who has travelled on a steam train, driven an automobile,or flowninanairplanedoesn'tfeelthesame way about form and space as one who has not.
Two qualities essential for the artist: moralityand perspective.
The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.
An artist is a creature driven by demons.
The aimof everyartist istoarrest motion, which islife, 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.
On fait de la critique quand on ne peut pas faire de l'art, de me" me qu'on se met mouchard quand on ne peut pas e" tre soldat. Someone is a critic when he cannot be an artist in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Just as the pious man prays without speaking a word and the Almighty hearkens unto him, so the artist with true feelings paints and the sensitive man understands and recognizes it.
The artist should not only paint what hesees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also omit to paint that which he sees before him.
Yo soy un artista. El placer de la carne le resta fuerzas a mi vocacio n picto rica, prefiero sentir que los jugos de mi sexo fluyen hacia un cuadro, lo irrigan, lo fertilizan, lo realzan; ca strame el goce de la carne, satisfa ceme el goce del arte. Iamanartist.The pleasure ofthefleshrobsstrengthfrom myartistic vocation, I prefer to feel my sexual juices flow toward a painting, wash over it, fertilize it, realize it; the delights of the flesh castrate me, the delights of art satisfy me.
L'artiste n'a pasou le poe' tepour fonction de trouver la solution pratique des proble' mes du mal. It is not up to the artist or to the poet to find practical solutions to the problems of evil.
The artist is not a special kind of man but every man a special kind of artist.
I believe that the scientist is trying to expand absolute truth and the artist absolute beauty, so that I find in art and science, and in an attempt to live a good life, all the religion I want.
Bullfighting is the onlyart in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Make copies, young man, many copies.You can only become a good artist by copying the masters.
An Artist of the Floating World.
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale.
The thing depicted is less stationary, even the object in itself is less discernible than it used to be. A landscape broken into and traversed in a car or an express train losesindescriptivevaluebut gainsinsynthetic value; the window of the railroad carriage or the windshield of the car, combined withthespeed at whichyou aretraveling, have changed the familiar look of things. Modern man registers one hundred times more impressions than did an eighteenth century artist.
The product oftheartist hasbecome less importantthan the fact of the artist.We wish to absorb this person.We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic.Inour society thisperson ismuchmore important than anything he might create.
Nothing the greatest artist can conceive That every marble block doth not confine Within itself; and only its design The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
The artist does not tinker with the universe; he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
The great joy of the artist is to become aware of a higher order of things, to recognize by the compulsive and spontaneous manipulation of his own impulses the resemblance between human creation and what is called 'divine'creation.
Qualis artifex pereo! Dead! And so great an artist!
More glutton than artisthe commences to chew up the scenery.
Unlike God the artist does not start with nothing and make something of it. He starts with himself as nothing and makes something of the nothing with the things at hand.
God is really onlyanother artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain that the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.
Theartist needsbut a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all therest Godgiveshim inabundance.Hemust live to paint and not paint to live.
The artist should fear to become the slave of detail. He should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.What avails a storm cloud accurate in form and colour if the storm is not therein?
A manmay be borna poet, but hehastomakehimself an artist as well.
No one ever complains if a great artist says that he was driven to create a masterpiece by a hunger for recognition and money.But a scientist? Well, he ismeant to be disinterested, pure, his ambition merely to descry the cement of the universe. He isn't meant to use it to start laying his own patio.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.
The dedication of an artist involves willing oblivion to everybody else while the art is being practised, and for the hours ambiguous to it.
Most marriages, where both or one is an artist, are 806 rickety.Most marriages of this kind comprise one failed artist.
The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.
I learned three things in Zurich during the war Firstly you're either a revolutionary or you're not, and if you're not you might as well be an artist as anything else. Secondly, if you can't be an artist, you might as well be a revolutionary I forget the third thing.
'Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.
I don't think it does any harm to the artist to be lonely as an artist.
Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Dog.
Unless [artists] can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
In judging paintings, you should consider whether the first impression pleases the eye and whether the artist has followed the rules; as for the rest, everyone makes some mistakes.
A typewriter needs only paper; a camera uses film, requires subsidiary equipment by the truckload and Wellington several hundreds of technicians. That is always the central fact aboutthefilmmakeras opposed toanyother artist: he can never afford his own tools.
The imitator is a poor kind of creature. If the man who paints only the tree, or a flower, or other surface he sees beforehimwereanartist, thekingof artistswould be the photographer.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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