#artist

That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen. ↗

— Edward Gordon Craig

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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

The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realisation then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming and about how ideas of forming stem from history. ↗

— Joseph Bueys

#art

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ↗

— Robert Hughes

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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

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My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy. ↗

— John Updike

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I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types. ↗

— Spencer Dryden

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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

#because #brain #i #individual #interests

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

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