#tis

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. ↗

— Rumi

#back #come #depends #find #going

The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#i #kind #never #out #problem

You know how creative people are, we have to try everything until we find our niche. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artists-life #arts-and-humanities #creative-people #creative-process

[in the true mad north] of introspection, where 'falcons of the inner eye' dive and die, glimpsing in their dying fall, all life's memory of existence. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#artist #beatnik #emptiness #existentialism #art

The importance of an artist is bringing new signs into a language. ↗

— Steve Sabol

#bringing #importance #into #language #new

Another time factor is output: proofing and printing. That is, getting your work out of the computer and onto paper and having it satisfy you. It can be time consuming and expensive. ↗

— Buffy Sainte-Marie

#another time #computer #consuming #expensive #factor

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. ↗

— George Sand

#heart #human #human heart #into #light

I know I'm not the kind of person who's gonna wind up a walking jukebox, like many rock 'n' roll artists. They just play their hits and that's it. That doesn't appeal to me. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#artists #gonna #hits #i #just

The noise around us determines how we speak. And how we listen. Just as a conversation suffers in a war zone, art suffers in a culture built on noise. So does our enjoyment of it. ↗

— Michael Gungor

#creativity #musicians #worship #art

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend our lives in conceiving then. The poet or the artist never yet had so fair and noble a design but some of his posterity at least could accomplish it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#artists #ideas #life #poets #reality