Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
– Burton Raffel
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- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- Fate will unwind as it must! – Burton Raffel
- You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
- He supposed that, except musicians, every one thought Beethoven a bore, as every one except mathematicians thought mathematics a bore. – Henry Adams
- Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan
- How should an artist begin to do his work as an artist? I would insist that he begin his work as an artist by setting out to make a work of art. – Francis A Schaeffer
- The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. – Julia Cameron
- Not only the artist watches his art with admiration but his art also watches his artist with admiration! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- In a democracy, people always vote for their alike! Pig for the pig, raven for the raven! Dull for the dull, wise for the wise! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there. – Maria Callas
- The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface – Lisa Renee Jones
- The market follows the artist. The artist does not follow the market. – Iimani David
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- Effective leadership is doing important things first. Effective management is knowing what is important. – Debasish Mridha
- Management informs. Leadership applies. The effective managers inform accurately. Effective leaders apply wisely. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action. – Peter F Drucker
- An artist is someone who, needing nothing and no one, wants everything and everyone. – Neel Burton
- Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur. – Joanna Russ
- Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time. Art does not exist for art’s sake: it exists for people’s sake. – Julian Barnes
- When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- All types and levels of art are beautiful, because art is beautiful, creativity is gorgeous and the artist itself is a masterpiece already. – Kelly Palmen
- When you master the art of work, then your life becomes a work of art…and you’re the artist and no one else paints your life for you. – Sotero M Lopez II
- This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. – James Baldwin
- Some art are meant to cut shortstretching them unnecessary makes it dull. – Yarro Rai
- Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso
- When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. – Madeleine LEngle
- But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. – Philip K
- … an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist. – Chaim Potok
- The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you. – Darnell Lamont Walker
- In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior; in America, being an artist is an excuse for a form of behavior. – William Faulkner
- Skathis might have been an artist, but he’d been a vile one. Strange the dreamer was an artist, too, and he was the antidote to vile. – Laini Taylor
- A high self-esteem having artist works hard to be understood. A low self-esteem having artist works hard to be agreed with. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- An angry artist tells people what (he thinks) they need to hear. A hungry artist tells people what (he thinks) they want to hear. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist. – Kata Mlek
- Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist. – Jean Genet
- The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. – Eric Gill
- A piece of art only succeeds when it’s creator…possesses the belief that brings it into being – Jessie Burton
- And at the closing of the dayShe loosed the chain, and down she lay;The broad stream bore her far away,The Lady of Shallot. – Alfred Tennyson
- I fear that I bore you with these details, but I have to let you see my little difficulties, if you are to understand the situation. – Arthur Conan Doyle