An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
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Criss Jami
When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect...
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Criss Jami
I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
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Criss Jami
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
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William Faulkner
More Quotes By Henri Matisse
I don't know whether I believe in God or not. I think, really, I'm some kind of a Buddhist. But the essential thing is to put oneself in a frame of mind which is close to that of prayer.
Creativity takes courage.
You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while working.
To look at something as though we had never seen it before requires great courage.
