#artists

But why? Why do you care about our class’s history?" "I just do. Besides, I need something to put on my art-school applications besides ’Locks self in room and draws all day.’ Even art schools won’t take a psychopath. ↗

— Natalie Standiford

#college-applications #psycopaths #art

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised ↗

— James Thurber

#creativity #mankind #art

Most artists weren't famous until they died (mostly because once they'd died they couldn't create any more art, so it would make it more valuable). ↗

— Sariah Wilson

#artists #dead #art

What if your art could provide everything you ever needed or wanted in life? ↗

— Patti Digh

#artists-life #creativity #question-do-what-you-love #art

I appreciated art, long before I could produce it. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#art #artistic-expression #artists #art

Orpheus never liked words. He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music. If we were in a restaurant sometimes Orpheus would look sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much. But I wanted to talk to him about my notions. I was working on a new philosophical system. It involved hats. 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. Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. It can fit around anything. Show me your body, he said. It only means one thing. ↗

— Sarah Ruhl

#loneliness #love #marriage #philosophy #plays

I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing. ↗

— John Berryman

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To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart. ↗

— Aberjhani

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Artists are the serfs of a leisure society. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #funny

Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in reality and the person is made whole. ↗

— Spider Webb

#artists #body-art #tattoo #tattoo-artist #art