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Letter "A" » artists
«It's my guess that those cutting-edge artists who attack tradition secretly believe tradition will survive to enshrine them as the wild and crazy geniuses who destroyed it»
Author: Brad Holland
| Keywords:
artists, cutting, cutting edge, enshrine, enshrines, geniuses, secretly, The Wild, tradition
«I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know. There we go beyond those limited and limiting patterns of body, emotions, volition, and understanding that have been keeping us in dry-dock. Instead we become available to our capacity for a larger life in body, mind, and spirit. In this state we know great torrents of delight.»
Author: Jean Houston
| Keywords:
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«I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
artists, arts, Great Spirit, human mind, teaching
«Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.»
Author: Margot Fonteyn
(Dancer)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
alike, artists, induces, inducing, pretension, sort of
«I've got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists-neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.»
Author: Stanley Kubrick
(Film Director, Writer)
| About:
Tragedy
| Keywords:
artists, conflict, criminals, peculiar, tragic
«Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.»
«It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill- it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
| About:
Art,
Life,
Madness
| Keywords:
all right, artists, completely, crazy, ill, immerse, immersing, mentally ill, mildly, only too, outsider, outsiders, put right, put to work, remain, right to work
«I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.»
Author: Jim Morrison
(Poet, Singer)
| Keywords:
artists, heroes, hooked, hooking, hook up, hook up with, literature, The Game, writers
«Bad artists always admire each others work.»
«Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
artists, conceive, conceive of, fashioned, minded, other than, prejudice, selected, shown
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