Artists are the antennae
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. Ezra Pound
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Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. Ezra Pound
The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, Ah Maestro, you are a genius! Paderewski tartly replied, Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod! What … Read more
I have never felt more alive than when I watched my children delight in something, never more alive than when I have watched a great artist perform, and never richer than when I have scored a big check to fight AIDS. Elizabeth Taylor
The child and the great artist — these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world. Edith Sitwell
You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it’s U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they’re gonna be products of their environment. Eddie Vedder
All great artists and thinkers are great workers. Friedrich Nietzsche
The artist’s business is to take sorrow when it comes. The depth and capacity of his reception is the measure of his art; and when he turns his back on his own suffering, he denies the very laws of his being and closes the door on everything that can ever make him great. Freya Stark
The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age. Franz Marc
Recently, the Germans have developed a tendency to prefer the so-called first (youthful) style of great artists to their mature works. Could it be that they do not realize that their aesthetic criteria, generally speaking, are juvenile? Franz Grillparzer
The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who’s not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He’s done it probably a dozen times or more. Frank Stella