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Artist Quotes by Carl Jung
- The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows it to realize its supreme purpose…
- The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness…
- Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The "newness"…
- The artist's life cannot be otherwise than full of conflicts, for two forces are at war within him [or her]-on the one hand, the common…
- The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating…
- Therein lies the social significance of art: It is constantly at work educating the spirit of the age, conjuring up the forms in which the…
- But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and…
- The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes…
- Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with…
- Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes…
More Artist Quotes
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
- I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views. — Kevin Bacon
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
- I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work… — Erykah Badu
- Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or… — Erykah Badu