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.

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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

• All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Time
  • Artist
  • Changing

• I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Always
  • Material

• 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

• I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

  

  William Hurt
  • Knows
  • Privilege

• I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to work with her. To be able to play a saxophone solo on one of her songs would be the most ultimate thing ever.

  

  Dave Koz
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Ultimate

• The real world with its common logic pushes us toward catastrophe. The artists seek in his work to free himself from this weight. Art is being transformed into politics, love into trade, education into an apparatus for stifling the mind. In the midst of such horrors, clearly only the dream within me has life. But how do other people live? -There is color, virginal expression - new, without a cage, without routine, without limit, a bath of sun and light. We must realize that nothing man does is of any value. The trouble is that people want to be paid. Only sick men can be artists. Their suffering pushes them into the accomplishment of deeds which reinvest the world with meaning. The sensitive man or the artist can only be a sick man in our civilized life, so full of lies. To think of art as a profession, how appealing! – Painting is man in the face of his downfall.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Education
  • Artist
  • Painting

• 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