Art Quote by Jack Levine Download Open image “Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.” — Jack Levine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Character Identity Independent Independent women Rugged Thinking
The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human. — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
The revolt against individualism naturally calls artists severely to account, because the artist is of all men the most individual; those who were not… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
That’s why an artist must be a warrior and, like all warriors, artists over time acquire modesty and humility. They may, some of them, conduct themselves flamboyantly in public. But alone with the work they are chaste and humble. They know they are not the source of the creations they bring into being. They only facilitate. They carry. They are… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share
It is precisely those artists and writers who are most inclined to think of their art as the manifestation of their personality who are… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Can you really think artists and writers are the only people entitled to lives of their own? — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the… — Alex Grey Copy Share Image
I have never learned to draw a hand well enough, so why should I stop trying now? — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit. — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall. — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, I want to remain the mean little man I always was. — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
My goal... not to go back to Rembrandt... but to bring the great tradition and whatever is great about it, up to date. — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat. — Jack Levine Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
“Hear the sum of the whole matter in the compass of one brief word — every art possessed by man comes from Prometheus.” — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your… — Aaron Rose Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“So, really," continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, "when you think about it, the artists… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share Image
“There are two options in art; either to adopt philosophical life by dissecting art, or to write your own philosophical life and claim it… — Taf Teh Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I think a business guy is different from an artist. They walk different paths. Artists create the best outputs when they're having fun. And… — G-Dragon Copy Share Image