Al Pacino Quotes, Artist Quotes, Play Quotes

The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

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What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.

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Tags : A. Y. Jackson Quotes , War Quotes , Artist Quotes

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.

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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

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Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.

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Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

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I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

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An artist must learn to be nourished by his passions and by his despairs.

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Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas.

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The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was great, because it sought to solve no social problem, and busied itself not about such things, but suffered the individual to develop freely, beautifully, and naturally, and so had great and individual artists, and great, individual men. One might point out how Louis XIV, by creating the modern state, destroyed the individualism of the artist.

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Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

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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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The artist after all is a solitary being.

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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.

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

In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things. To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.

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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

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There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.

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