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Fear doesn't go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day. — Steven Pressfield

The artist is not born to a life of pleasure. He must not live idle; he has a hard work to perform, and one which often proves a cross to be borne. — Wassily Kandinsky

The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life. — Pete Hamill

The naturalness of life ... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life. — Barbara Hepworth

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist. — Chris Robinson

The first creation of every artist is getting carved from the best moments of his life!! — Nelson Jack

Whoever uses the spirit that is
in him creatively is an artist. To
make living itself an art, that is
the goal. — Henry Miller

Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions. — Marya Mannes

Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record. — Andre Maurois

'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life. — Julia Cameron

I couldn't decide whether it was better to be the art, or the artist. — Chris Campanioni

The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist. — Lesley Manville

Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. — Orhan Pamuk

May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life. — Robert Regis Dvorak

THE ARTIST'S LIFE Are you a born writer? — Steven Pressfield

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life. — Timothy Keller

I realized ... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing ... — Beverly Pepper

You just have to know that the more successful you get as an artist, the less of a normal life you have. It's a trade-off. — Solange Knowles

The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life. — John French Sloan

The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it. — Rachel Field

Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen. — Sundra Oakley

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; Not a "Box of chocolate" You have to put the pieces together to get the 'real' picture. — Andrea L'Artiste

Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.
For the Earth, without 'Art' is just 'Eh — Jasleen Kaur Gumber

In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing. — Vincent Van Gogh

I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist. — Quentin Tarantino

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu. — Abderrahmane Sissako

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything. — Wilson Pickett

Literature will save me it's the only certainty i am sure of. — Nikki Rowe

Creativity is the brain's invisible muscle -- that when used and excercised routinely -- becomes better and stronger. — Ashley Ormon

You are a legend. Your self-invention matters. You are the artist of your own life. — Lady Gaga

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist. — Roger Daltrey

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. — Novalis

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts. — Oscar Wilde

For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist. — Douglas Brinkley

Being passionate about something is the most beautiful characteristic you can develop. — Charlotte Eriksson

The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself. — Pablo Picasso

No-one has the right to terminate a person's life with a gun, a knife, or a makutu (spell). — Theresa Sjoquist

All I wanted was my art and the chance to be the creator of my own world, my own reality. — Charlotte Eriksson

The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness. — William McFee

She pours sugar on her life
and drinks the artist's marrow
in the bone of her glass and she lives. — Kelli Russell Agodon

That life has no clear meaning is the best possible news for an artist. — Marty Rubin

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore. — Dorothea Lange

The life of an artist is not so romantic as some might suppose. — Kyle Muntz

The onlooker turns from the artist who has higher ideals and who cannot see his life purpose in an art without aims. — Wassily Kandinsky

Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art. — Miguel Ruiz

One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist. — Andres Serrano

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one. — John Lloyd Young

I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist. — Brandon Boyd

The only prophecy the artist can make with confidence is that he and his message will be misunderstood by a world that values all the wrong things. — Chloe Thurlow

The function of the artist is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life. — Tom Robbins

To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life. — Rajneesh

Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life — Frank Wynne

I know I am making the choice most dangerous to an artist in valuing life above art, — James Agee

A true martial artist welcomes change; He is A catalyst, A cause, A force of nature — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I've always responded to those same artists, — Annaleigh Ashford

The art wouldn't complain if we leave her alone. Losing a touch with art, however, is losing a touch with our imagination. — Pawan Mishra

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre. — Vikas Swarup

Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life ... — Ursula K. Le Guin

The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended. — A.S. Byatt

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
Linus Pauling — Linus Pauling

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world ... — Alice Walker

The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete. — Sylvia Plath

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The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career. — E.A. Bucchianeri

The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work. — Ernst Haas

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave. — Tom Wolfe

The goal of the artist is not to solve a question irrefutably, but to force people to love life in all its countless, inexhaustible manifestations. If — Leo Tolstoy

The artist needs no religion beyond his work. — Elbert Hubbard

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. — Tiffany Madison

The artist injects the spirit of life into a culture. — L. Ron Hubbard

I can obviously relate to a character who is an artist, because the creative process is a big part of my life. — Paul Dano

The story tells us that living the life of an artist is not as useful as living our lives as a work of art. — Martin Prechtel

You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Make something worth staring at. — Cheryl Richardson

The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them. — Jerry Uelsmann

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life. — David Steindl-Rast

Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life. — Mark Haddon

For the artist treating of man's relation to all sides of life there cannot and should not be heroes, but there should be men. — Leo Tolstoy

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride. — Robert Redford

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before. — Kurt Vonnegut

The artist secretes nostalgia around life. — Cyril Connolly

The function of the artist,' the Navajo answered, 'is to provide what life does not. — Tom Robbins

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life. — Giorgio Morandi

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it. — Julia Cameron

God, the supreme artist, uses our life for the creation of art. We are the instruments through which the force of life expresses itself. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire. — Patti Smith

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. — Edward Hopper

Art is a celebration of life, intended by the artist to put the spectator in touch with the divine. — Joseph Plaskett

To wear something like that your whole life is the largest compliment someone can pay to you as an artist. — H.R. Giger

Measurements are never enough. The artist's eye and desire to breathe life into the subject must be the deciding factors. — David McCullough

Sometimes for the spectators a great magic effect is worth a life's experience. — Amit Kalantri

The life of an artist is not all glamorous. It's a lot of work. A lot of people think that it's very easy. — Selena

The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child. — Henri Matisse

Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding. — Akshay Vasu

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. — Philip K. Dick

I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try. — Laura Osnes

I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. — Don DeLillo

Life usually tells the best stories - but sometimes it takes an artist to show us what they mean. — Terry Teachout

Freedom can choke you if you don't know how to handle it. — Charlotte Eriksson