Art Quote by Maynard James Keenan Download Open image “Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.” — Maynard James Keenan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Suffering
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork. — Bill Griffith Copy Share Image
Always take yourself seriously... it's not the same as being pompous, or overly self-assured, but it is important to understand that the small little… — Wolfgang Tillmans Copy Share Image
The whole 'serious artist' thing is very damaging. The powers that be will steer you towards your own demise. One thing I've learned is… — Dave Gahan Copy Share Image
The more you think, the more you ruin things. Art has to come viscerally; otherwise, forget it. — Al Jourgensen Copy Share Image
“I think serious art is supposed to make us confront things that are difficult in ourselves and in the world.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Why did Father give these humans free will? Now they're all confused. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily. — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
The trick is to use the drugs once to get there, and maybe spend the next ten years trying to get back there without… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
“If I let you, you would make me destroy myself. in order to survive you, I must first survive myself. I can sink no… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but… — Maynard James Keenan Copy Share Image
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are… — Maynard James Keenan 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
