#artist

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#created #critic #function #never #proper

You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into. ↗

— Leonard Nimoy

#been #concept #doing #i #into

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. ↗

— Kenneth Noland

#clique #first #generation #group #identity

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs. ↗

— Rita Ora

#given #honest #just #songs #tell

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. ↗

— Sarah Ruhl

#beauty #loneliness #love #plays #relationships

I think we should throw money at artists, not at girls who take their clothes off because they made a bad choice in life. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#strippers #life

A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #artist #craftiness #craftsmanship #crafty

But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition— and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation— and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts, to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity— the dead to the living and the living to the unborn. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#artists #writers #writing #art

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature? ↗

— Maurice Ravel

#creativity #humor #self-knowledge #humor

They decided to establish a museum of modern art where works by contemporary artists would be shown. Mother was viewed as a very progressive person, and not everybody liked the paintings she bought. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#artists #bought #contemporary #decided #establish