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... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.

… an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.
– Chaim Potok

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  1. An artist is a person first. – Chaim Potok
  2. An artist is a person first. – Chaim Potok
  3. An artist has got to get acquainted with himself just as much as he can. It is no easy job, for it is not a present-day habit of humanity. – Chaim Potok
  4. Art is a person’s private vision expressed in aesthetic forms. – Chaim Potok
  5. Two people who are true friends are like two bodies with one soul – Chaim Potok
  6. Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way. – Chaim Potok
  7. I do not have many things that are meaningful to me. Except my doubts and my fears. And my art. – Chaim Potok
  8. It’s not a pretty world, Papa.”I’ve noticed,’ my father said softly. – Chaim Potok
  9. Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way. – Chaim Potok
  10. It was no joy waking up after a dream about that man. He left a taste of thunder in my mouth. – Chaim Potok
  11. I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. – Chaim Potok
  12. A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two – Chaim Potok
  13. The silence became unreal and seemed suddenly filled with a noise of its own, the noise of a too long silence. – Chaim Potok
  14. It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon… – Chaim Potok
  15. In Russia I went to a great yeshiva, and in America I work in a carnival. – Chaim Potok
  16. Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been. – Chaim Potok
  17. Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay. – Chaim Potok
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist. – Eric Gill
  21. Individual organ of human brain makes individual decision for working of brain and driving behavior in humans. – Santosh Kalwar
  22. In God’s world the individual counts. Therefore, Christian art should deal with the individual. – Francis A Schaeffer
  23. A pure heart does not demean the spirit of an individual, it, instead, compels the individual to examine his spirit. – Criss Jami
  24. That which is good for the society is not necessarily good for the individual. That which is good for the individual is good for the society. – Richard Diaz
  25. The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers. – Garrett Hardin
  26. The environment acts more strongly upon the individual life the less fixed and strong this individual life may be. – Maria Montessori
  27. Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change. – Efrat Cybulkiewicz
  28. State can become threat to individual life, cause of individual liberty. – Kaushik
  29. A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different. – Keely Barton
  30. The here, the now and the individual have always been the special concern of the saint, the artist, the poet and — from time immemorial–the woman. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. The scary part of being an artist is knowing that what makes you a better artist can also kill you. – Darnell Lamont Walker
  34. 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
  35. You know what? I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m gonna make art, arty art art! – Andy Biersack
  36. I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. Every parent is an artist, but not every artist is apparent. – Eric Michael Leventhal
  40. Artist must have an all-or-nothing attitide. Otherwise they will bite his head off and there will be no artist. – Kata Mlek

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