I've been told my old city possesses a 'thriving arts scene,' whatever that is; personally, I think artists should lie low and stick to their work, not line-dance through the parks.
Walter KirnNot all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
Pope John Paul IIAn artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
Oscar WildeThrough the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.
Steve MartinTags: artists self-aggrandizement
The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Ursula K. Le GuinTags: art happiness pain evil artists
I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.
Marcel DuchampThe individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.
Marcel DuchampTags: individuality art man artists personality
The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
Anton ChekhovWhat we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.
John LubbockTags: inspirational perspective seeing flowers artists game botanists farmer fossils geologists sight sportsmen
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
Eckhart TolleTags: artists
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