#artist

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#big #brush #building #choose #construction

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#airplane #any #artists #atom #atom bomb

An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy. ↗

— Norman Reilly Raine

#fat #grows #his #like #otherwise

Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#artists #creativity #surrealism #art

From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections. ↗

— Criss Jami

#artists #human-nature #imperfections #mistakes #perfect

Now almost every artist outside of New York is connected with some school or some museum school, and even in New York the majority are. That's an interesting fact when you take the idea of making money, making a living selling paintings. Only a dozen or two painters do that. ↗

— Ad Reinhardt

#artist #connected #dozen #even #every

Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film. ↗

— John Schlesinger

#artists #because #conscious #cost #film

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!! ↗

— Artur Schnabel

#artistry #between #differently #handle #i

Too Clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was "digitization" which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh. Film, photography, music: dead. "An aesthetic holocaust! ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#artists #digitalization #modernism #art

The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not be controlled nor put to sleep. In a poet this must often be the visual imagination, bringing before his eyes a succession of images which he never summoned, and of which some (it is only too likely) will be ugly or pitiful. ↗

— Mary Lascelles

#poet #art