#artist

Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

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What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work. ↗

— Emil Nolde

#discovers #gives #him #himself #incitement

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors. ↗

— Emil Nolde

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I do not know anything about Art with a capital A. What I do know about is my art. Because it concerns me. I do not speak for others. So I do not speak for things which profess to speak for others. My art, however, speaks for me. It lights my way. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

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This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me what your position is. You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got. ↗

— Toni Morrison

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Creative people who have made their seemingly most self-indulgent artistic whims into a career. ↗

— Steve Purcell

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I recount as this journey begins where I rest to gather the tale from this same old house resting on the hill, leaving me a view of a carnival once seen from just across the tracks. My pallet is dry now. The colors I see no more. The rain has washed away many of the signs that once stood for a prosper home and family. My grave is waiting. The dreams once filled my head with images of world unison, hope and companionship for all. The saga spoken through my canvas drew darker as the years went on to the bitter cold nights. All that comes to me now are glimpses of faces that graced my soul. ↗

— Kris Courtney

#award-artist #drama #memoir #true-story #dreams

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

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An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. ↗

— Robert Henri

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The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

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