“From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.”
Reynolds Price
“Every artist was first an amateur.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.”
Henry Mille
“The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he is a painter, or his ears if he is a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he is a poet, or, if he is merely a boxer, only his muscle? On the contrary, he is at the same time a political being, constantly alert to the heartrending, burning, or happy events in the world, molding himself in their likeness.”
Pablo Picasso
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.”
James Thurber
