Quotes of: Creative-artist Keyword

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Grandma Moses

Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.

Jock Sturges

As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.

Phylicia Rashad

Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.

Terry Gross

The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.

Tony Kushner

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.

Ted Naifeh

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

Annie Lennox

The sage of Nazareth may satisfy those who have never faced the problem of evil in their own lives; but to talk about an ideal to those who are under the thralldom of sin is a cruel mockery. Yet if Jesus was merely a man like the rest of men, then an...

Christianity and Liberalism

Everyone lives in two worlds,” Maggie said, speaking in an absentminded sort of way while she studied her letters. “There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that...

NOS4A2

...some have asked me what understanding of Nature one shapes from so strange a year? I would answer that one's first appreciation is a sense that creation is still going on, that the creative forces are as great and as active to-day as they have eve...

The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod

Love makes us wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and a flow of creative ideas. Love floods our nervous system with positive energy, making us far more attractive to prospective employers, clients, and creative partners. Love fills us with...

The Law of Divine Compensation: On Work, Money, and Miracles

. . . None of us are born as passive generic blobs waiting for the world to stamp its imprint on us. Instead we show up possessing already a highly refined and individuated soul. Another way of thinking of it is: We're not born with unlimited choices...

The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

Big in Japan: A Ghost Story

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Andre Maurois

All of our great traditions, religious, contemplative and artistic, say that you must a learn how to be alone - and have a relationship with silence. It is difficult, but it can start with just the tiniest quiet moment.

David Whyte

We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.

Al Jourgensen

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Abraham Lincoln

I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

Chuck Berry

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

Havelock Ellis

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Hans Hofmann