#artist

Art and relligion are not professions: they are not occupations for which men can be paid. The artist and the saint do what they have to do, not to make a living, but in obedience to some mysterious necessity. They do not product to live - they live to produce. ↗

— Clive Bell 1914

#art

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

Royal Young has accomplished a rare feat in his fresh and riveting debut: he manages to recount his fascinating youth and unconventional family with a mixture of humor, scathing honesty and tenderness. Much more than simply a book about a kid who dreams of stardom, Fame Shark is a thoughtful, hilarious and moving love letter to his family and the Lower East Side of New York City. ↗

— Kristen Johnston

#celebrity #family-relationships #memoir #nyc #stardom

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

...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire. ↗

— Ice-T

#obstacles #life

A lot of excellent illustrators are working at the moment--especially in fantasy and children's books. It is exciting also to see graphic artists such as Dave McKean, in his film Mirrormask, moving between different media. I also greatly admire the more traditional work of Gennady Spirin and Roberto Innocenti. Kinuko Craft, John Jude Palencar, John Howe, Charles Vess, Brian Froud ... I'll stop there, as the list would get too long. But--in a fit of pride and justified nepotism--I'll add my daughter, Virginia Lee, to the list. Her first illustrated children's book, The Frog Bride [coming out in the U.K. in September, 2007], will be lovely. ↗

— Alan Lee

#love

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

Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#humor #respect

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#artists

Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#sai #sakura #shippuuden #artists