Ezra Pound
Related “The artist must be in the art. If the art does not reflect the work of the artist, then it was cr... AARON CHAPMAN JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY JOHN F. KENNEDY First an artist must master technique. Once accomplished, then the artist can focus on mastering cre... JIM GENOVESE JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY REED HUNDT It is even more clear to me that Simon wouldn't know a hit song, image or talent if it hit him in th... MATHEW KNOWLES NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE OSCAR WILDE JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER REBECCA WEST JEAN COCTEAU PIET MONDRIAN PIET HEIN JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE It is an iconic painting by the artist. It fully deserved to make this record for the artist, which ... NICHOLAS HALL HENRY MILLER REBECCA WEST AUGUSTE RODIN The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ... KEITH HARING How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an ... FRANCIS A. SCHAEFFER GUSTAVE FLAUBERT The reason I chose him is he makes an effort to go after a more innovative artist. GENE KRONBERG Whenever an artist becomes dominated by his own ignorance, his art loses value, for it is only the p... ROBIN SACREDFIRE GUSTAVE FLAUBERT GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can ... JACOB EPSTEIN The artist has a duty to be calm. He has no right to show his emotion, his involvement, to go pourin... ANDREI TARKOVSKY GEORGE BERNARD SHAW TENNESSEE WILLIAMS The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, l... EMIL NOLDE LANGSTON HUGHES As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & E... JOHN VAN HAMERSVELD The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as... EMIL NOLDE I'm an artist sometimes, but I find myself in love with art all of the time. THEE AMAZING GRACE BILLIE BURKE An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up prec... STEPHEN STILLS HAROLD ROSENBERG ANGELA CARTER Commemoration of Albrecht Dürer, artist, 1528, and Michelangelo Buonarrotti, artist, spiritual ... JOHN W. DIXON TARYN MANNING W. H. AUDEN W. H. AUDEN An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the ... ANDREI TARKOVSKY MENCIUS AI WEIWEI FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER ANNE ROIPHE SUZY KASSEM NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE FERNANDO BOTERO RICHELLE E. GOODRICH HENRI MATISSE They ask me all the time what an artist is. A painter is someone who paints what is in front of him,... HAGOP NAJARIAN The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, l... EMIL NOLDE Freedom of speech is, to all Americans, as oxygen is to the human condition. It is a right that has ... JOHN C. MCGINLEY ANDRE MAUROIS FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER FRIEDRICH SCHILLER It's not the tools, but the methods an artist uses that makes him or her great. JIM GENOVESE KAMAND KOJOURI JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE A.E. SAMAAN Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effo... CONNIE WILLIS CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effo... CONNIE WILLIS SAUL BELLOW SAUL BELLOW The writer knows his own worth, and to be overvalued can confuse and destroy him as an artist. CHARLES R. JACKSON If you want to be objective about the Art, don't befriend the Artist...... MANJUNAN GNANARATNAM YAYOI KUSAMA FERNANDO BOTERO I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more to... SAM TAYLOR-JOHNSON In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of t... ALBERTO GIACOMETTI DAVID HOCKNEY ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ALBERT EINSTEIN ALBERT EINSTEIN D.H. LAWRENCE 26. Don’t marry someone with intolerable characteristics in the hopes of changing him or her. If y... JAMES C. DOBSON SAUL BELLOW FERNANDO BOTERO RICK RIORDAN WALTER GROPIUS EZRA POUND STEVE ALBINI The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take th... KAREN HESSE LEONARDO DA VINCI KERRY WASHINGTON To be an artist there are three steps: first, learn technique, second learn art principles, and thir... JIM GENOVESE ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI ALBERT SZENT-GYORGYI Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather ... ROBERT SMITHSON When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in... BIBLE ANTHONY PERKINS SHAKIRA Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch... ALFRED SISLEY AKSHAY VASU
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision... 
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision... 
I see little of more importance to the future of our country and of civilization than full recogniti... 
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exa... 
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, which cannot find a great dea... 
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sit... 
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, ... 
An authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience. 
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture. 
If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pic... 
After all, what is art? Art is the creative process and it goes through all fields. Einstein’s the... 
The work of art may have a moral effect, but to demand moral purpose from the artist is to make him ... 
Whoever uses the spirit that is
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ... 
People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing in... 
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him... 
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living... 
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot,
his mother drudge for his living ... 
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced ... 
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In reality, however, an artist is a product of art 
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An artist is merely a tool with which art molds itself. 
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its... 
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its... 
I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art. 
The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them. 
Art should be for sale. The artist should not. 
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately... 
Any artist should be grateful for a naïve grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaboratel... 
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True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. 
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist 
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Life is an art, and you are the artist. 
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Look in the Mirror that's your competition". 
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