#tis

Every true artist is at war with the world. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#artist #war #art

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry. ↗

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#autism #details #intuition #nerd #nerdiness

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time. ↗

— Henry Miller

#artists #freedom #imagination #art

There doesn't seem like there should be an artful way to butcher a cow, but there is, and this is not it. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#butchering #cows #craft #meat #art

The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't ↗

— Yahtzee Croshaw

#artist #critic #flawless #truth #art

Art can permeate the very deepest part of us, where no words exist. ↗

— Eileen Miller

#asd #autism #outsider-art #art

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#absurdity #art #artist #ecstasy #experiment

Artists are those who can evade the verbose. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#artists #creativity #art

A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#brain #craftsman #hands #heart #his

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artist #beginning #creation #discovery #art