Artist Quotes - Page 8

The artistic bend is a sell-out. It's all truth, or it's no good. EIther write what's in the heart, all of it, the good, the bad, the ugly, the uglier, the privat and even more private and it's a book worth reading. Not willing to go there? Do yourself and the world a favor: Don't write it until you're ready to do so. Only then is it your truest artist being heard. And only then will the world want to hear what you have to say."-Wendy K. Williamson 9/25/14

Wendy K. Williamson

If it's your greatest dream, you wouldn't give up so easily.. So do yourself a favour, find it again & start focusing on anything that will help you materialise it, it's not going to be a walk in the park, but it will help you sleep at night; 10 years from now.

Nikki Rowe

I am happiest sitting against a tree, with my notebook or sketchpad on my knee, capturing the moment.

Fennel Hudson

Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist.

Kata Mlek

Leave me to die a lonely death. An artist’s death. A writer’s playground. A painter’s background. A philosopher’s bread and butter.An endeavor that we all face. I just hope that I’m not the only one there.

A.P. Sweet

I see the game now. You can't write with ink, and you can't write with your own heart's blood, but you can write with the heart's blood of some one else. You have to be a cad before you can be an artist. O’Henry 'The Plutonian Fire' (1905)

o.henry

He traced her arched eyebrow. “Every morning when I wake up with you at my side, you’re more beautiful than yesterday.

Lindsay McKenna

My normal friends loved having a token author. Just like every WoW raiding party needs at least one healer, every gaggle needs at least one artist. They enjoyed introducing me to people at bars. "This is Jessica. She's a writer." That's really code for "She's definitely fucking someone tonight. Hang around long enough, and that someone might be you.

Jessica Wildfire

Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.

David Scheier

She, however, attentively watched my looks, and her artist's pride was gratified, no doubt, to read my heartfelt admiration in my eyes.

Anne Brontë

Writing and art are my lovers

Edna Stewart

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

Shannon L. Alder

But you're an artist. you should know there's more to a story than the part happening right now.

Kate Messner

The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the noble weather of their own minds and those productions which seem remarkable to us are little better than a day's routine to them.

Thornton Wilder

The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and -- from time immemorial--the woman.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes.

Dean Koontz

But the artist began to have misgivings as the wall underwent its transformation. Bigger than any pavement project he had yet undertaken, it made him restless. Over the years, a precise cycle had entered the rhythm of his life, the cycle of arrival, creation, and obliteration. Like sleeping, waking and stretching, or eating, digesting and excreting, the cycle sang in harmony with the blood in his veins and the breath in his lungs. He learned to disdain the overlong sojourn and the procrastinated departure, for they were the progenitors of complacent routine, to be shunned at all costs. The journey -- chanced, unplanned, solitary -- was the thing to relish.Now, however, his old way of life was being threatened. The agreeable neighborhood and the solidity of the long, black wall were reawakening in him the usual sources of human sorrow: a yearning for permanence, for roots, for something he could call his own....

Rohinton Mistry

To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.

Louise Bourgeois

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimming when once the actions have become a lie.

George Eliot

Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.

M.C. Escher

The most mesmerizing of artists is always like one who was merely drawing in the sand and people came to watch.

Criss Jami

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

Amit Kalantri

She simply converted an average face into beautiful face and a beautiful face into an angelic face.

Amit Kalantri

A human being is a real artist and a creative in any field, not a programmed robot in some factory.

Shawn Lukas

Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

Amanda Craig

In a timepiece, a sweep of a second hand is so slim in a way that it doesn't wait for no man, and that's why we choose to conceive things from the heart.

Shawn Lukas

Nothing I do is natural, realistic, organic or accidental. I'm never spontaneous, I'm completely premeditated.

Nuno Roque

Love is like a magic trickYou know you are getting fooled, but still, you stand in lineAnd pay to see it again and again.

Yarro Rai

The artist has the master picture in his mind, before he begins to paint.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

Ellen J. Barrier

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.

jaime gil de beidma

We didn't come to the world just to entertain, we came to play remarkable roles, and our reward is to see you doing more than us.

Michael Bassey Johnson

The artist is often misunderstood because, stepping outside himself and holding most details in great tension, he's about as complex as a shape-shifter; or a head with faces on all sides, but not necessarily in the negative connotation as one being two-faced usually implies. For instance, to be misunderstood can mean to be improperly deemed a troublemaker when that is not one's true intent: you see, to troublemakers, the artist knows that the peacemaker may seem like a troublemaker; therefore he may, whether in honesty or in jest, at times, present himself as a troublemaker for perceptual, artistic flair. But then to the artless peacemakers, because of this they will interpret him as a troublemaker. This is why the artist has so few allies. To the troublemakers he's a troublemaker, yet still the peacemakers a troublemaker.

Criss Jami

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don't like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

Criss Jami

I can’t make a first impression like the one I made on you. That would be horrible.”t“Slow down there, princess. How do you know what kind of first impression you gave me?”tRowan made her ‘are you for real?’ face. “I think it’s safe to say getting tangled in dog leashes and then having one of the dogs urinate on you ranks up there with worst first impressions ever.”t“I’d classify it as most memorable…. I knew right then my life would never be the same.

Robin Bielman

What if pretending is interfering with the person you’re meant to be?” he said.

Robin Bielman

I’m in awe of you, Rowan Palotay,” he said softly. “And plan to make love to you for the rest of the night, but right now, I want you to be a good cowgirl and ride me.”tHis finger hooked around the string of her panties, and he tugged them down and off. “The boots stay on.

Robin Bielman

He tasted like chocolate and hazelnut liqueur and she wanted to feast on him for the rest of the night. His kiss… his kiss took her to another place where fireworks blazed.

Robin Bielman

Surely there is a knowing behind it all. There is a teacher, an expresser, a creator, an artist perhaps, a poet certainly that has designed and presented all of the clues that we need to navigate life with some degree of grace, and perhaps with a greater degree of happiness than we now have.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced

Agatha Christie

When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.

Flannery O'Connor

Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want memory to secure you, console you. The past is a bore. What matters is only oneself and what one creates from what one has learned. Imagination uses what it needs and discards the rest— where you want to erect a museum. Don't hoard the past, Astrid. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

Janet Fitch

The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.

Truman Capote

A picture is a personal diary where only the artist knows the meaning.

Steeven Shaw

I love widely and deeply, the Naive sense of Primitivism I manage to project in my Art. It always gives me a sense that it is not developed or derived from anything else, and it is unaffected by objective reasoning. Very similar to my nomadic life.

Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Do you know how hard it is to paint kindness?” She leaned her hip against a desk in the corner of the room, still watching me. “It’s the only part of a person I really want to capture. Everything else seems to get lost in layers of deception or defensiveness. But not kindness. You can’t hide it. And people either are or they aren’t.

Laura Anderson Kurk

I am an artist, and a rebel one at that. I live in the voluptuous dimension of imagination, so if you're expecting normalcy (dullness) from me, sorry to disappoint, but you're quite mistaken. Ordinary is not my best attire, I've tried it and normal just never fit quite right. I will always be the crazy one who believes in magic, unicorns and impossible dreams. But also love, compassion and empathy.

Melody Lee

The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl.

Tom Robbins

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic.

Amit Kalantri

The secret of good magic is another magic.

Amit Kalantri

As a general rule, in the world of magic, the most successful magician is the one who has enough patience to keep the secrets of his original magic effects.

Amit Kalantri

Magic is logic.

Amit Kalantri

A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise.

Amit Kalantri

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

Amit Kalantri

A bad magician never gets the good props.

Amit Kalantri

If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

Amit Kalantri

A magician with decreasing practice sessions will give defective performances.

Amit Kalantri

No matter how many times audience has already applauded, the sound of their applause will get louder with the better quality of your magic effect.

Amit Kalantri

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life’s experience.

Amit Kalantri

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