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

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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It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

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It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.

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I have wanted . . . to commit a murder myself. I recognized this as the desire of the artist to express himself! . . . But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice. The innocent must not suffer.

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

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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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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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My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

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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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Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

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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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Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an implicit acceptance, like being invited along to the dinner with all of the good cartoonists, or sitting down at a drafting table with an artist and him showing me how to draw backgrounds and perspectives.

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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.

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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

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Ability to download music for free might not be positive for the artists to get royalties, but in some ways it's still good that people can get your music, and hopefully in the course of that, people will want to see you live, around the world shows. It might get you to where you get to travel all over the planet. 'Cause now people are hungry: "Oh, I wanna see this guy, I wanna hear this music live, I wanna see if they're gonna remix it or funk it up differently when I see them."

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