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Best Artist Quotes by Eric Maisel
- I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.
- An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
- The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
- It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend…
- Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else...
- Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
- The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a…
- Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
- The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
- The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will…
- When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that…
- The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss…
- Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
- No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
- The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
- A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it…
- The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how…
- Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and…
- The artist at her best - wild, passionate, rebellious, and human - is often too large and truthful a creature for society's taste. The artist…
- An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
- Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
- The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
- An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes...
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