#artist

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants 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 Guin

#artists

An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#artist #emperor #her #his #oppresses

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#being #doing #embraced #i #like

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#i #limits #look #ones #own

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#artists #careers #come #dreams #fruition

As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#beautiful #choose #i #more #than

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#appreciate #artist #happy #i #make

I do greatly admire Australian artists. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#artists #australian #greatly #i #i do

I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone. ↗

— Rene Auberjonois

#anyone #artist #call #doodle #down

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#art #artist #believes #comes #commissioned