#artist

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist. ↗

— Jacques-Louis David

#body #form #give #only #perfect

All artists are now free to express their own personality. ↗

— Maurice Denis

#express #free #now #own #personality

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#artist #artists-life #insight #art

Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you. ↗

— John Dykstra

#artistic #as far as #away #being #concerned

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel. ↗

— Don Ellis

#feel #others #play #should #think

I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#basics #down #his #how #i

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#across #always #artistic #board #clues

I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music. ↗

— Peter Gabriel

#another #artist #every #exclusivity #i

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#artist #does #his #inner #inner world

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists. ↗

— Crystal Gayle

#develop #nashville #promising #used #work