#artist

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#artist #being #dad #different #done

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#artists #needs #art

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing. ↗

— Eugene Delacroix

#achieves #aims #artist #everything #nothing

Women artists are still treated differently from men. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#differently #men #still #treated #women

The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#causes #conscience #disease #endless #fills

This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered... ↗

— Tim Perkins

#artist #author #childrens-books #fantasy #illustrator

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. ↗

— Mel Torme

#albums #artist #been #came #contents

I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to be connected…or that no one can outrun destiny…or that all roads lead to truth and coincidence is a lie to distract us? The reason I was in this place no longer mattered. The harsh reality stared me in the face and demanded an immediate decision. Walk away and blame it on my age. Or stay and try to help a woman who had slowly become my friend over the last few weeks. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#art #artist #beauty #college-application #glass-girl

They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model") ↗

— Hume Nisbet

#artist #literature #painter #painting #age