94 result(s) for Quotes About Risking Your Life For Art.
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"Art requires a level of risk-taking, whether it's choosing a theme that could alienate the audience or pursuing a medium that challenges traditional forms."
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards."
"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail."
"There is no greater risk than the risk of going back to what is safe. It is only through the uncertainty of risk that success can be achieved."
"Art is the most beautiful of all lies."
"To be an artist, one must take risks, awaken their instincts, and follow their passions."
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"The greatest contribution of artists to society is the courage to face the truth of their own lives and to reveal that truth."
"There is no greater risk than the risk of taking none."
"Creativity takes courage."
"As artists, we turn the ordinary into the extraordinary by risking everything we have for beauty."
"The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision."
"If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."
"Art is the meeting ground of the world and the self, and making art sometimes means risking it all."
"Risk is the price of progress in art."
"An artist is a creature driven by the spirit of dissatisfaction."
"To create is to live twice; so it takes a brave heart to bare and share one’s soul."
"Art is not freedom from discipline, but disciplined freedom."
"Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this can involve the greatest of risks."
"You risked it all to capture one moment in time; that’s the art of the photographer."
"Art is a risk, a chance to gamble, to explore the unknown."
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"The artist, like the poet, is a risk taker; he stands beyond the borders of safety."
"Art is life intensified, and to live intensely is to risk heartbreak."
"We risk missing our most important lessons by living a cautious life."
"In every work of art, there is a part of the artist's life. The risk involved in the creation of that work reflects the artist's passion."
"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web."
"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
"I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream."
"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."
"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"Art is a line around your thoughts."
"The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
"Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers – and never succeeding."
"I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for."
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"The principle goal of painting is to deceive; but it must deceive in such a way that the deception is not obvious."
"If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing."
"I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality."
"To be an artist is to believe in life."
"Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art."
"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
"Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see."
"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."
"An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one."
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without the work."
"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts – such is the duty of the artist."
"Art is never finished, only abandoned."
"If I am doomed to suffer, I do not mind, as long as it is me who suffers; I ask no one else to suffer in my place."
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
"If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
"Great art picks up where nature ends."
"Art is the only way to run away without leaving home."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing."
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
"We don't make mistakes, just happy accidents."
"Everything you can imagine is real."
"The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see."
"Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."
"If one cannot risk failure, one should not try."
"Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years."
"You must take the risk to do something that has never been done before."
"The artist is always beginning. Any work that is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth."
"Art is not a mirror to reflect reality, but a hammer to shape it."
"I'm an artist. I'm an artist and I'm here to take risks."
"The supreme reality of our time is…the vulnerability of our planet."
"If you are not prepared to die for your art then you are not serious."
"An artist must never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success."
"Art is risk; it's exposure; it's putting yourself in a place where you can fail."
"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone."
"Truth is sought not because it is expedient or convenient, but because it is truth."
"To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes."
"If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive."
"The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep."
"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."
"Art is not a mirror to hold up to society, but a hammer with which to shape it."
"Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth."
"Art is a wound turned into light."
"If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is grass in the beginning."
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
"In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it."
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."
"Paint what you see, not what others want you to see."
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."
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