Maria Popova (July 28, 1984 -) To be an artist is to be a human being who feels everything more deeply, the beautiful as well as the terrible, and builds of those feelings bowers where others can safely and sacredly process their own.
Ben Shahn On Artists
Ben Shahn (September 12, 1898–March 14, 1969) The artist occupies a unique position vis-à-vis the society in which he lives. However dependent upon it he may be for his livelihood, he is still somewhat removed from its immediate struggles for social status or for economic supremacy. He has no really vested interest in the status …
Anthony Burgess On Experience
Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 – November 22, 1993) Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist.
William Rose Benét On Writing Poetry
William Rose Ben’et (February 2, 1886 – May 4, 1950) The poet (artist) must write as it pleases him to write. If he writes what other people tell him to write, he may get some good verse, but he won’t get poetry. When I write to please myself, I may write some very bad verse, …
Jeanette Winterson On Artists
Jeanette Winterson (August 27, 1959 -) [For the artist] it is a question of always going back and uncovering what is already there because the artist is something of a dredger: you have to let down your net and pull up things from the mud, from the silt, that are unrecognizable, that have been forgotten, …
Albert Camus On Artist
Albert Camus (November 07, 1913 – January 06, 1960) An Oriental wise man always used to ask the divinity in his prayers to be so kind as to spare him from living in an interesting era. As we are not wise, the divinity has not spared us and we are living in an interesting …
Walker Evans On Artists
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) Almost all good artists are being worked through with forces that they’re not quite aware of. They are transmitters of sensitivities that they’re not aware of having, of forces that are in the air at the time. I’ve done a lot of things that I’m surprised …
