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Artist Quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms…
- Everything is gestation and bringing forth. To let each impression and each germ of feeling come to completion wholly in itself, in the dark, in…
- Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to…
- Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where…
- No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
- Go into yourself and test the deeps in which your life takes rise; at its source you will find the answer to the question whether…
- Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms…
- In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn’t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting,…
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