#artist

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#deadline #stamina #tools #life

as an artist, one of the toughest things to do is getting someone to understand why you think the way you think. And as much as i don't wanna care what they think about my thinking, it comes down to making them understand or watching them leave. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#creativity #life #understanding #life

Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists. ↗

— Colin R. Davis

#celebrity #everyone #immediate #produce #success

Only soldiers and labouring men can appreciate how glorious it really is to lie late in bed in winter-time. When your life revolves around having to to be at work at seven o'clock in the morning you know everything about that ghastly lep up still half asleep and the rush to put your head under a tap of ice-cold water with the barbarous object of shocking yourself awake. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#real-life #life

For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance. ↗

— Frank Black

#before #chicken #egg #live #live performance

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#become #cartoon #first #i #idea

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters. ↗

— Jack Levine

#characters #independent #individualists #like #most

You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist. ↗

— Hamish Linklater

#body #build #grow #many #muscles

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#art #artist #criticism #critics #genius