Artistry Quotes - Page 2

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Art, Creativity

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• There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist—it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist.

  Kara Walker

  Education, Art, Doctors

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Beautiful, Art

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• There arent any rules, as far as anything-and that applies especially to writing songs, whatever gets the point across. So youre just kind of brought up to feel-in any field, if you say you can do it, do it. There it is.

  Guy Clark

  Motivational, Country, Song

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• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Art, Discovery, Self

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.

  Edward Gordon Craig

  Art, Writing, Mean

  Edward Gordon Craig (2008). “On the Art of the Theatre”, p.41, Routledge

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  I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.

  Ray Charles

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Ray Charles (2004). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• It's amazing to see things that are suggested in the book fully developed and so brilliantly realized through the artistry of the designers.

  Suzanne Collins

  Book, Designer

  "'The Hunger Games' Author Suzanne Collins Praises Lionsgate's Adaptation" by Rebecca Ford, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 01, 2012.

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• It's difficult to choose between these art forms. Iconography is entirely different from the style of the 15th century masters, who were experts in foreshortening and perspective. The technical skill and visual effects of painters like Uccello have to be admired. They achieved a level of artistry that has never been surpassed, in my opinion.

  Mary Pope Osborne

  Art, Skills, Perspective

  Source: www.yabookshelf.com

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• I'm happy to be a woman but much of it was learned over the course of life. Really thudded into me. You learn it. It's a kind of mastery and artistry. The deeper person underneath the scent of Diptyque Philosykos or whatever is much less gendered. Every person has a range. In fiction, you get to be it all. I'm as much the men in my book as I am the women. I write how I write and there is no mission to stake a claim.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Writing, Men

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• My sketchbook is a witness of what I am experiencing, scribbling things whenever they happen.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sketchbooks, Witness, Happens

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• This is what art is all about. It is weaving fabric from the feathers you have plucked from your own breast. But no one must ever see the process - only the finished bolt of goods. They must never suspect that that crimson thread running through the pattern is blood.

  Katherine Paterson

  Running, Art, Blood

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• My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within [Crystal Castles]. Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles.

  Alice Glass

  Art, Honesty, Self

  FaceBook post by Alice Glass from Oct 08, 2014

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• Great artists have no country.

  Alfred de Musset

  Life, Country, Artist

  Alfred de Musset, Paul de Musset (1908). “Comedies, tr. by Raoul Pellissier, E. B. Thompson, Mary H. Dey”

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• Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Mean, Artist, Giving

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• An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, War, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.

  Frank Herbert

  Powerful, Government, Judging

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.180, Penguin

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• What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Creativity, Thinking, Air

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• Creativity is absolutely for everyone. I firmly believe this. I think if you're the driest accountant with the plastic pocket pen protector it's in how you interact with the world. There is artistry in everything that we do and there is expression in everything that we do.

  Rainn Wilson

  Believe, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Without moving beyond a mere copy, there is no artistry, no originality or artistic advancement; only mechanics.

  Jennifer Young

  Moving, Copying, Advancement

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• We think it hugely important to support young artists, there is a war against that kind of artistry, that kind of creation...When somebody is 19 years old, they're gonna do what they're gonna do just like we did... For me the most important thing was for him to know anytime he can call and I'll come whatever happens.

  Will Smith

  War, Artist, Thinking

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• The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.

  Ezra Pound

  Courage, Learning, Men

  Cantos no. 81, l. 148 (1948)

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• Artistry is to a large degree simplicity.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Simplicity, Degrees

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• I believe that Judy Garland's artistry was so fine. I mean, when people say: 'oh, she brought so much of her life to her music', I don't really believe that. I believe that she didn't have to. She just was a moving human being. That was her gift.

  Bette Midler

  Believe, Moving, Mean

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• My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

  Chrisette Michele

  Believe, Creativity, Answers

  "Natural Hair Celebrity- Chrisette Michele". Curly Nikki Interview, www.curlynikki.com. April 12, 2010.

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