• It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.9 · 45 votes · 185 reads

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• It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 111 reads

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• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 54 votes · 105 reads

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• Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 128 reads

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• No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 142 reads

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• No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 61 votes · 23 reads

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• No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 9 reads

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• Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It is the castigation of God by the artist. It is sad. It is true.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 117 reads

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• Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.9 · 6 votes · 149 reads

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• That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 168 reads

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• The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 153 reads

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• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 186 reads

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• The artists must be sacrificed to their art. Like the bees, they must put their lives into the sting they give.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 69 reads

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• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 13 votes · 2 reads

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• 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.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 93 reads

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• The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.3 · 19 votes · 137 reads

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• The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 69 reads

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• To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

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  Arnold Bennett

  NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

  3.5 · 37 votes · 85 reads

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• To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 2 reads

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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 180 reads

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• When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 71 reads

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• Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 11 reads

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