Art Quote by Michael Ventura Download Open image “The element of obsession is terribly important for an artist.” — Michael Ventura ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Elements Important Obsession
A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
Most inner-oriented artists share a common characteristic, a certain quality of obsession. — Kenneth Coutts-Smith Copy Share Image
An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine. — Andres Serrano Copy Share Image
Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up… — Vince Aletti Copy Share Image
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“He became a surgeon because he was afraid of knives. He got married because he was afraid of women. He had a child because… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Leave people alone when they tell you to leave them alone. If they mean it, they need it. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
That's what America's all about, man, if it's about anything. You can choose your own name. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
“In joy, our choices may appear to be few, but one's responses are anything but confined, they're inspired, expanded.” — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
We have to be realistic about the brutal demands a money culture puts on the psyche, and there is a great cost to this… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
The world of psychology and the world of normal life tends to look down on obsession. It's not good for you, and certainly not… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
Stop tolerating in your leaders what you would not tolerate in your friends. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
An artist doesn't depend upon inspiration or have to have it. An artist doesn't depend on mood, certainly not if you're earning your living… — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I never get my creativity flowing. I'm a pro, this is how I earn my living. If it don't flow, I don't eat. — Michael Ventura Copy Share Image
I require and enforce as non-interrupted a state of living as you can get in America right now without going off to live by… — Michael Ventura 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
