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For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function.

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The true artist can only labor con amore.

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An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

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Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.

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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind

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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

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For man is by nature an artist.

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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

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In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

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Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.

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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

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Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

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The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Time Quotes , Artist Quotes

The mind of an artist, in order to achieve the prodigious effort of freeing whole and entire the work that is in him, must be incandescent...there must be no obstacle in it, no foreign matter unconsumed.

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The artist in me cries out for design.

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