Artist Quotes - Page 4

• Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

  Andre Gide

  Spiritual, Art, Creative Collaboration

  "The Millionaire Rig Veda" by Timothy James Brearton, (p. 40), 2012.

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  I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Vincent van Gogh, Mark Roskill (1997). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Vision, Spirit

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• Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Art, Inspiration

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• The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

  Robert Hughes

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.

  Henri Matisse

  Cute, Art, Paint

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• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

  William S. Burroughs

  Real, Mind, Architect

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

  Billy Joel

  Sea, Perception, Musician

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Jan 28, 2014

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• Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Art, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Lonely, Loneliness

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Art, Failure, Creative

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• For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perseverance

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from The Hague, www.webexhibits.org. October 22, 1882.

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• An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

  Andre Malraux

  Art, Freedom, Genius

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• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist

  Francis of Assisi

  Heart, Hands, Labor Day

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• Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Inspiring, Art, Eye

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Differences, Painting

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• Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Art, Design

  'What is Art?' (1898) ch. 19 (translated by Maude)

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• Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

  Stella Adler

  Life, Music, Crush

  Stella Adler (2012). “Stella Adler on America's Master Playwrights: Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams, William Inge, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee”, p.11, Vintage

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• Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

  Miles Davis

  Life, Music, Beautiful

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• A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

  Bobby Darin

  Money, Business, Boss

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• Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Creativity, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: seven lessons from Apple's founder" by Frédéric Filloux, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2011.

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• If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Umpires, Roots

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, October 26, 1963.

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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