#artist

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands. ↗

— John Paul II

#beauty #creator #beauty

Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#artists #arts #careers #creativity #empowerment

The function of the artist is to disturb...In a world terrified of change, he preaches revolution--the principle of life...He is the creative spirit working in the soul of man. ↗

— Dr. Norman Bethune

#creative-process #creativity #inspirational #revolutionaries #change

Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people. ↗

— Scott Nicholson

#communication #communication

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

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#composing #creating #creative #jamie-weise #love

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation. ↗

— Marie-Louise von Franz

#creativity #writers #love

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#been #choreography #i #idol #jobs

I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#being #doing #embraced #i #like

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#i #limits #look #ones #own