Honore De Balzac Quotes, Eye Quotes, Artist Quotes

The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn't make a definitive statement about this, but my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.

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Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

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All great artists and thinkers are great workers.

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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

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You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

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