Art Quote by W. Eugene Smith Download Open image “An artist must be ruthlessly selfish.” — W. Eugene Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Art Artist Photographer Selfish Selfishness
An artist has to be selfish; otherwise, he's not true to his own art. — Peter Frampton Copy Share Image
The definition of an artist, for me, is someone who is quite selfish about their creativity. — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“Any artist who fails to engage with society and the vulnerability of the individual in a cruel existence should not style him-or herself an… — Lena Andersson Copy Share Image
“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can't feel everything that humanity feels, if the… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it. — Keith Jarrett Copy Share Image
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty. — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I was after a set of pictures, so that when people looked at them they would say, ‘This is war’-that the people who were… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I am an idealist. I often feel I would like to be an artist in an ivory tower. Yet it is imperative that I… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
The first word I would remove from the folklore of journalism is the word objective. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I think photojournalism is documentary photography with a purpose. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
I would that my photographs might be, not the coverage of a news event, but an indictment of war. — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
Many claim I am a photographer of tragedy. In the greater sense I am not, for though I often photograph where the tragic emotion… — W. Eugene Smith 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
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