#artist

When you ask me what I came to do in this world, as an artist I will tell you: I came to live out loud. ↗

— Emile Zola

#inspirational #inspirational

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. ↗

— Craig Raine

#inspirational #writers-on-writing #writing #inspirational

I want to invest and have my own record label and artists. I want to have a business where my kids, kids, kids will still have something going on long after I'm gone. ↗

— Chingy

#artists #business #going #gone #i

A genius doesn't adjust his treatment of a theme to a tyrant's taste ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#life

‎"But when I fell in love with black, it contained all color. It wasn’t a negation of color. It was an acceptance. Because black encompasses all colors. Black is the most aristocratic color of all.... You can be quiet and it contains the whole thing." Happy birthday to Louise Nevelson (1899-1988)! ↗

— Louise Nevelson

#black #color #love

Not 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. ↗

— John Paul II

#artists #art

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. ↗

— Heinrich Böll

#artist #love #woman #art

[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day. ↗

— Woody Allen

#artist #life #meaning #water #art

Jo told me once that she was an old woman everywhere but in her studio. “There I’m only myself,” she’d said. Standing in the middle of masterpieces that only Jo had ever seen and touched, I knew what she meant. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#art-studio #artist #creativity #dating #glass-girl

In every motions to put colors on my canvas, I feel like I am screaming, "I AM HERE"... To whom?.. To where?... Where am I going to...? ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#artist #color #life #painting #scream