#artist

To get over artist's block, make shitty art. ↗

— Dave Horowitz

#dave-horowitz #writers-block #writing-life #art

The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#artist #miserable #misery #write #writer

To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born. ↗

— A.P. Gouthe

#experience

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist. ↗

— Georges Seurat

#character #depends #drawing #each #only

Imagine What you think you create What you feel you attract ...What you imagine you become ↗

— Adele Basheev

#inspirational #imagination

Patience is eternal genius ↗

— Michelangelo Buonarroti

#inspirational #inspirational

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. ↗

— William Faulkner

#artist #goal #inspirational #inspirational

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. (Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#artists #falsification #gain #greed #honesty

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life. Linus Pauling ↗

— Linus Pauling

#linus-pauling #the-artist-s-way #life

Unbelievable,” I said when it was done. And Brilliant and Audio crack and That one will be everyone’s breakup song, and so on, because great is never good enough for the artists; they always want to know exactly what you mean and which nanosecond of the song you mean it about. ↗

— Kelley Eskridge

#ego #music #music