Arthur Morrison Quotes

It is the artist’s privilege to seek his material where he pleases, and it is no man’s privilege to say him nay.

Arthur Morrison

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• I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Like
  • Artist

• The navigation of our inland waters has for years been sought in vain by foreign countries, and if we grant the privilege to Russia, other States will be guided in their demands by her example.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Example
  • Privilege
  • Russia

• I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was – knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Knowing

• I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Think
  • Artist

• Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Artist
  • Favorite
  • Gucci

• Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • May
  • Greatest
  • Privilege

• 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.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Trying
  • Artist
  • Perception

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Artist

• As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Control
  • Artist
  • Independent

• I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Artist
  • Person
  • Regret

• Life provides material for its agitation which makes its general views comprehensible to the masses.

  

  Karl Radek
  • Life
  • Material
  • Masses

• The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Real
  • Art

• I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.

  

  Kara Walker
  • She
  • Black
  • Artist

• If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'

  

  Angela Robinson
  • Artist
  • Lawyer
  • Painter

• When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Art
  • Dress
  • Recognize

• It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Heart

• There's many an artist that comes to Nashville in hopes of doing the same thing I'm doing right now,

  

  Jason Aldean
  • Artist
  • Comes
  • Nashville

• You can’t judge a banana by the outside. The outside of the banana might be all bruised and discolored and look really nasty, but once you open the banana and peel the skin back, there could be a nice, clean, fresh banana inside. I also explained that there are all different kinds of bananas, just as there are all different kinds of people, and that we shouldn’t judge either the people or the bananas in our lives until we have the chance to “peel back the skin” and learn what’s inside.

  

  Brad Cohen
  • Chance
  • Learn
  • Judge

• My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Should
  • Office
  • Tweet

• Newspaper people have a habit of putting you in the front pages to sell their papers, and then after they've sold their papers and got big circulations, they say, 'Look at what we've done for you...

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Habit
  • Pages

• It is the artist’s privilege to seek his material where he pleases, and it is no man’s privilege to say him nay.

  

  Arthur Morrison
  • Artist
  • Privilege
  • Seek