Art Quote by Lewis Hyde Download Open image “An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation” — Lewis Hyde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Creation Essentials Invocation Labor Portions Supplication
An essential portion of any artist’s labor is not creation so much as invocation. Part of the work cannot be made, it must be… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
An artist's work is a synthesis of much more than the work of other creators. — Phoebe Gloeckner Copy Share Image
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour. — Galina Ulanova Copy Share Image
“I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. I hope… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Artists have a tremendous purpose in society, which is to continually expose, to continually challenge and to never stop producing. To never stop creating,… — Andrea Suarez Paz Copy Share Image
It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than… — E. J. Hughes Copy Share Image
Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What is it about a work of art, even when it is bought and sold in the market, that makes us distinguish it from . . . pure commodities? A work of art is a gift, not a commodity. . . works of art exist simultaneously in two “economies”, a market economy and a gift economy. Only one of these… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share
Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“All cultures seem to find a slightly alien local population to carry the Hermes projection. For the Vietnamese it is the Chinese, and for the Chinese it is the Japanese. For the Hindu it is the Moslem; for the North Pacific tribes it was the Chinook; in Latin America and in the American South it is the Yankee. In Uganda… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share
The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
To be a great teacher, you can't simply be looking at how to earn your income. And with a priest or spiritual leader -… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage. — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
All that we make and do is shaped by the communities and traditions that contain us, not to mention by money, power, politics, and… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Science may not be as intimate as the medical profession; nonetheless, it certainly is a community in which ideas are often shared as contributions,… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
“There is the family of our birth and then there is a more noble world to which we really belong; the richness of this… — Lewis Hyde 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 water they loved to drink. This good man, Noah, having seen that all his contemporaries had perished by this unpleasant drink, took a dislike to it; and God, to relieve his dryness, created the vine and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
“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 who make people stop and think, who push the form, who make you uncomfortable, who are laughable, well, they're the ones who get remembered." Idly, Jacob dug a hole in the snow with his shovel and… — Justina Chen Headley Copy Share
“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
