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Artist Quotes by Eric Maisel
- Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who…
- An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.
- The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.
- It goes against an artist's grain to retire. But whether he retires or not, he will age... What work will get done in the remaining…
- Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
- An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
- Artists disbelieve and dispute society's most cherished notions.
- An alive piece of art may be more alive than much of its audience, and with this odd truth artists must make peace.
- It is the artist's job to revere beauty without being enchanted by it, to aim for it but also to aim for truth and goodness…
- Boredom is the thing that regularly arrives between excitements and episodes of meaning: it is as natural as the tides, and in it an artist…
- Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
- Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.
- It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
- Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.
- The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
- An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.
- To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence,…
- The artist who pictures sounds as colours, who feels the difference in microns between one sea green and another... is not attending to what the…
- The artist, busy and unsettled, can find a moment's peace - and even whole-being rejuvenation - by quietly attuning to a red sky, a gray…
- While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to…
More Artist Quotes
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how… — Oscar Wilde
- I have always felt that the Internet was a more important research tool for a writer than an artist. — Bella Freud
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- 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
- 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