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An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason read more
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality read more
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature.
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the read more
I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but read more
The studio, a room to which the artist consigns himself for life, is naturally important, not only as workplace, but as a source of inspiration. And it usually manages, one way or another, to turn up in his product.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to read more
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure -- if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.