Keys Quote by Scott Avett Download Open image “In painting, the key is not taking myself seriously to the point where it kills sincerity.” — Scott Avett ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Keys Painting Sincerity Truth
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
The effect of sincerity is to give one's work the character of a protest. The painter, being concerned only with conveying his impression, simply… — Claude Monet Copy Share Image
Painting can also be too earnest at times and that's a drag. You don't want to go in that direction either. It should be… — Joe Bradley Copy Share Image
You just have to be adventurous and that's the way I like to work. I think that's the role of the artist, to do… — Neige Copy Share Image
Only dull and impotent artists screen their work with sincerity. In art there is need for truth, not sincerity. — Kazimir Malevich Copy Share Image
Not taking yourself seriously is one of the most elegant things in the world. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously. — Takeshi Kitano Copy Share Image
You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Women of all looks, shapes, sizes, everything, if they recognize how beautiful they are-because they all are-then they carry it that way. And you… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
It was Rick's Rubin idea to have the 'Brooklyn' verse repeat. It already was a story, but having that made it a folk song.… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
A great show means we have to connect; we have to prove to [the audience] that we do something great or blow their socks… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
I had a dream that Louis Armstrong was playing the 'Swept Away' melody. I have no idea where it came from. But Louis Armstrong… — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'm extremely afraid of the unknown, but I'm so grateful to be on that journey. — Scott Avett Copy Share Image
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Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
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the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
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It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
As for the piano, the faster her fingers flew over it, the more he marveled. She struck the keys with aplomb and ran from… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image