#artist

The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. ↗

— Max Nordau

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Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence. ↗

— Alva Noto

#coincidence #decision #every #individual #nothing

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic? ↗

— Alva Noto

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. ↗

— Novalis

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Even a true artist does not always produce art. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

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Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

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The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#because #detested #enemy #reviewer #singularly

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends, living like starving artists, and wonder, 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do, so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

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Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.' ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

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My first influences were superhero artists. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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