D. H. Lawrence Quotes, Pain Quotes, Artist Quotes

The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

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We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.

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every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

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If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

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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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I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

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As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

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I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

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I’m an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I’m always looking to extend the boundaries.

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Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

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I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

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Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

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Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.

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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

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

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An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Artist Quotes , Hands Quotes

To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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