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The role of the artist is not to impose his idea on the material by force, but to help the material speak and express his own feelings in the language of this material that has come to life.
In a real poet, a talented musician and a good artist always get along.
- He wrote for four years.
If optical illusion were the only work of art, undoubtedly indeed, but the petty artist would be more prone to success; but the artist of genius wants to turn not to the eye, but to the mind; nor will he waste time on those little things that only serve to capture meaning, divide attention, and counteract his grand design to speak to his heart.
The artist must compensate for the natural shortcomings of his art. He has only one phrase to say, but one moment to prove himself. He cannot, like a poet or a historian, spread.
The artist must not only imitate the works of nature by necessity ... but he must be an equally necessary imitator of the work of other artists: it seems more humiliating, but equally true; and no man can be an artist, no matter what he presumes, under any other conditions.
- Here I learned. And I brought the patterns from my distant country. I am from the city of nightingales, from Kabul.
- It's clear...
Quote Explanation: The policeman asked Castle, "Are you really writing the heroine from Detective Beckett?"
A successful person is always an amazing artist of their imagination. Imagination is much more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited, and imagination is infinite.
Nietzsche argues that it is a sign of weakness if the artist is too busy with the moral side of his art.
The artist today invites us to accept art as bromine, so that we can see that it is, in essence, a mockery of ourselves.
Art, the Doctor once told him, is a highly subjective thing. One artist can paint a gorgeous picture of yellow flowers in a field, almost like a photograph. Another can enlarge the image of flowers in proportion to the background and foreground. The next painter can make the flowers angular and two-dimensional, and another painter can make the painting with three yellow dirty spots on a blue background. But each of them has their own vision of the world and fans.
The public imagines that it chooses its own writers, in fact the artist chooses its audience. To disregard the commonplace public is to value the opinion of some.
The creative process is a competition, a struggle between the artist and nature, in which the artist often turns out to be a demonic winner, transcending nature and reaching the divine.
The artist who paints the picture perceives the canvas as an open field, and the multi-colored paints as the grains of the soul.
