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“You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream. I worshipped you. I grew jealous of every one to whom you spoke. I wanted to have you all to myself.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
“I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.”
Quote by -Oscar Wilde
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Quote by -Frank Lloyd Wright
The true artist has no public; he works for the sheer joy of it, with an element of playfulness, of casualness.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Artists in all fields must learn to observe choicelessly, to digest their observations, and to express them in their work.
Quote by -Bruce Lee
Beware of artists, they mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous.
Quote by -Queen Victoria
“I suppose that really I had a training or education not so very different from a lot of other artists and illustrators — it’s just that I didn’t have it in the normal order. When I was at school I liked drawing, and I liked anything to do with humor, and I liked writing too. When I was about fourteen, I was lucky enough to be introduced to a man who both painted pictures and drew cartoons for newspapers and magazines, including Punch, the most famous English humorous magazine at the time. He was called Alfred Jackson and every few months I would take him a collection of my drawings to look at. Now I look back and realize these were in fact lessons or tutorials, and what was especially good about them was that he talked not only about the cartoonists’ drawings in Punch at the time, but also about Michelangelo and Modigliani as well.”
Quote by -Quentin Blake
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
Quote by -Henry James
If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this liability, moreover, increase in proportion as the effort is great and the ambition intense?
Quote by -Henry James
If we pretend to respect the artist at all we must allow him his freedom of choice , in the face, in particular cases, of innumerable presumptions that the choice will not fructify.
Quote by -Henry James
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
Quote by -Henry James
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
Quote by -Henry James
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of the highest distinctions... In this light one sees the critic as the real helper of the artist, a torchbearing outrider, the interpreter, the brother... Just in proportion as he is sentient and restless, just in proportion as he reacts and reciprocates and penetrates, is the critic a valuable instrument.
Quote by -Henry James
"Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist."
Quote by -Robert Greene
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
Quote by -Banksy