ART QUOTES: What is an Artist?
For artist I think you could read any person who strives to express the creative part of themselves but the images here are also wonderful.
Reblogged from The Remodern Review
Romare Bearden “Dream of Exile”
If you’re any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.
-Romare Bearden
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William S. Burroughs with his shotgun art
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
-William S. Burroughs
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Philip Guston
We are image-makers and image-ridden… We work until we vanish.
-Philip Guston
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George Bellows “Cliff Dwellers”
The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.
-George Bellows
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Saul Steinberg
The artist is an educator of artists of the future…
-Saul Steinberg
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I would absolutely agree with your own statement.
If more writers understood that they are really artists, it could result in less suffering-writer-in-the-garret syndrome, and more good writing available.