Quotes of: Solo-artist Keyword

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.

All This, and Heaven Too

All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

W. H. Auden

Criticism demands infinitely more culture than artistic creation.

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

She is a famous artists' model who claims to have been christened Topaz - even if this is true there is no law to make a woman stick to a name like that.

I Capture the Castle

I cannot explain, nor must an artist defend his work or elucidate in such a way the reeling audience can fathom, brutes that they are.

The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface

If I Were You

Her secret? It is every artist's secret--passion. That is all. It is an open secret, and perfectly safe. Like heroism, it is inimitable in cheap materials.

The Song of the Lark

My growth as a human being has been directly proportional to my growth as a marital artist.

My Mastery: Learning to Live through Jiu Jitsu

An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity.

My Name Is Asher Lev

Some artists are normal people who just happen to make things because we can't figure out how in the hell to communicate with people.

The Manor

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.

My Name is Red

To my mind the most interesting thing in art is the personality of the artist; and if that is singular, I am willing to excuse a thousand faults.

The Moon and Sixpence

As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer.

Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

If a musician wants to become a fine artist, he must first become a finer person.

Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

How does one balance the fallen and redeemed aspects of life in the artistic portrayal of human experience in the world?

The Liberated Imagination: Thinking Christianly About the Arts

Repetita iuvant. Italy, a land of great saints, poets, sailors, artists, statesmen, businessmen, lawyers, intellectuals, professors, journalists, whores, gangsters, religious parasites and dickheads.

L'Italia in breve.

All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unlike.

Letter to My Daughter

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done. That would be you.

Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

Artistic symbols and myths speak out of the primordial, preconscious realm of the mind which is powerful and chaotic. Both symbol and myth are ways of bringing order and form into this chaos.

My Quest for Beauty

The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life.

The Secret Art of Seamm Jasani: 58 Movements for Eternal Youth from Ancient Tibet

He's got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist.

Time and Again