Edward Gordon Craig Quotes
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.Edward Gordon Craig
Quotes to Explore
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
Federico Fellini -
I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
Natalie Cole -
I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger -
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
Van Cliburn
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It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.
Dan Marino -
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius -
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 -
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Aaron Johnson -
I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
Gary Clark Jr. -
But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
Carl Andre -
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
Kara Walker -
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
P. J. Harvey -
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Langston Hughes -
At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.
David Alfaro Siqueiros -
The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.
Harry Browne -
Natural or artificial stimulation of nerves gives rise to a process of progressive excitation in them, leading to a response in the effector organ of the nerves concerned.
Otto Loewi -
I surrounded myself with people who indulged my ego. They treated me as though I was Ziggy Stardust or one of my characters, never realising that David Jones might be behind it.
David Bowie -
That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
Edward Gordon Craig