#artist

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#absurdly #am #amp #artistic #been

[Who are the artists you admire, Surrealist or otherwise?] Remedios Varo, Max Ernst, Charlotte Salomon, Goya, Aubrey Beardsley. Beardsley is not so much about the impossible as he is about freaks and deformities, but those are interesting to me too. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#artist #art

I didn't want to save art - I respected the older artists too much to think art needed saving. But I knew it was finished, even though, at that time, I didn't know what I would do. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

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I recount as this journey begins where I rest to gather the tale from this same old house resting on the hill, leaving me a view of a carnival once seen from just across the tracks. My pallet is dry now. The colors I see no more. The rain has washed away many of the signs that once stood for a prosper home and family. My grave is waiting. The dreams once filled my head with images of world unison, hope and companionship for all. The saga spoken through my canvas drew darker as the years went on to the bitter cold nights. All that comes to me now are glimpses of faces that graced my soul. ↗

— Kris Courtney

#award-artist #drama #memoir #true-story #dreams

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#artist #creativity #hope #inspiration #art

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. ↗

— Robert Henri

#imagination #art

The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'. ↗

— Sebastian Horsley

#artists #motivation #art

I mean really, how could an artistic individual stay grounded in the nitty-gritty of how many minutes per pound meat has to stay in the oven when trying to fathom the creative philosophy behind the greatest artistic minds of the world? ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#artists #artsy #being-practical #cooking #creativity

Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly. ↗

— Agnes Martin

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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. ↗

— Roberto Burle Marx

#aesthetic #also #artist #color #complex