Virginia Woolf Quotes, Artist Quotes, Criticism Quotes

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics, but not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it's not pornography, etc. And now people even of our parents' generation are familiar with the term "graphic novel," which is kind of amazing.

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An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.

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There are no teachers, saints, prophets, good people, but the artists.

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Artist Quotes , Greatness Quotes

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

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Every harlot was a virgin once.

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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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Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

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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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The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

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Tags : Al Yankovic Quotes , Artist Quotes , People Quotes

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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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.

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For man is by nature an artist.

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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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Artist Quotes , Phases Quotes