#artist

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. ↗

— Ben Okri

#failure #fewer #gestures #greater #higher

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#art #artistically #better #certain #certain level

In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate for yourself on the most supreme level, artistically, that you can and hoping that people get it. Trusting that, just because of the way people are built and how interconnected we are, greatness will translate and symmetry will be recognised. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#art #artistically #because #better #built

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#claims #day #eleven #every #every day

Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius. ↗

— Albert Pike

#almost #artisans #artists #been #genius

Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame. ↗

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

#creativity #ennoble #fame #preserve

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act. ↗

— Bret Michaels

#artist #i #me #never #nostalgia

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. ↗

— Michelangelo

#artist #best #break #contained #figures

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#being #group #i #imagine #imagined

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells. ↗

— Grandma Moses

#artist #primitive #sells #whose #work