Best True Artist Quotes
59 True Artist quotes by 51 unique authors
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
— Oscar Wilde
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A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same…
— Constantin Stanislavski
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The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.
— Bruce Nauman
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With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is…
— Rosa Luxemburg
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If you practice for ten years, you may begin to please yourself, after 20 years you may become a performer and please the audience, after…
— Ali Akbar Khan
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A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create.
— Lee Hammond
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There is a desperate tendency to try to legislate artists, to try to lay down rules for their obligations to society. Just leave artists alone.…
— Athol Fugard
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I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody…
— Haley Reinhart
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I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and…
— Jemima Kirke
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
— Randy Houser
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A true artist is an ugly man.
— Osamu Dazai
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Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.
— Robert Schumann
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Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.
— Roger Scruton
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The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.
— Walter J. Phillips
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Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar,…
— Tom Peters
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
— D. H. Lawrence
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Even a true artist does not always produce art.
— Carroll O'Connor
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Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in.
— D. H. Lawrence
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However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't it plain how…
— J D Salinger
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do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
— Vladimir Nabokov
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To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so…
— John Gardner
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
— Salvador Dali
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For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Every true artist is at war with the world.
— Anthony Kiedis
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The true artist plays mad with his soul, labors at the very lip of the volcano, but remembers and clings to his purpose, which is…
— John Gardner
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