“A true artist removes his heart willingly, allows constructive criticism to stomp it, then puts it back—bruised and aching—as he continues to strive for excellence due to the all-consuming obsession and love for his art.”
“ONLY having the Gift, people appreciate this madness as Art. Everybody wants to have Art in their lives, but no body wants to have what the Art came out from in their lives...”
“When a mad man found some certain way to express his insanity in original way, he would get promoted to be called an Artist.... Wait, are you talking about me?”
“And as for Owen Warland, he looked placidly at what seemed the ruin of his life s labor, and which was yet no ruin. He had caught a far other butterfly than this. When the artist rose high enough to achieve the beautiful, the symbol by which he made it perceptible to mortal senses became of little value in his eyes while his spirit possessed itself in the enjoyment of the reality.”
“The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface”
“The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination”
“The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.”
“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book, he opens it and shows there are still more pages possible.”
“An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.”
“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or canvas before starting her next masterpiece. How satisfying it was to mess around in paint gear, without having to worry about spills, starch or frills, that was the life!”
“I am the eye that beholds... And I am the dreamer that paints the stars in the night sky... For I am the one they call artist, and you call Love.”
“The soul of an artist cannot be muted indefinitely. It must either be expressed or it will consume the host.”
“ But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing. Happy birthday to Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)!”
“The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that s the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.”
“I ve always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists.”
“She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist s pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.”
“Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.”