Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
Quotes to Explore
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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Through a painting we can see the whole world.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
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Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
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The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
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With so many contradictory renditions of the biblical text, the public has lost confidence that we can actually know what the Bible says. It is an easy step from this skepticism to an indifference about what the Bible says.
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I was a dancer. I was really seriously into dancing.
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Nor do I think that any other nation than this of Wales, nor any other language, whatever may hereafter come to pass, shall on the day of severe examination before the Supreme Judge, answer for this corner of the earth.
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The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.
