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  • Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Artist Quotes , Men Quotes
  • This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Fighting Quotes , Artist Quotes
  • I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Passion Quotes , Artist Quotes
  • Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Artist Quotes , Order Quotes
  • 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.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Artist Quotes , Player Quotes
  • The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Artist Quotes , Two Quotes