“Artists are those who can evade the verbose.”
Source: Kafka on the Shore
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Haruki Murakami 655
Japanese author, novelist 1949Related quotes
Source: The Agony and the Ecstasy

“Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.”
Les artistes qui cherchent la perfection en tout sont ceux qui ne peuvent l'atteindre en aucune partie.
Quote, 4 March 1858, from Journal de Eugène Delacroix, book 3
1831 - 1863, Delacroix' 'Journal' (1847 – 1863)

Skinny Legs and All (1990)
Context: ... she recreated the mountains not as she had originally seen them but as she eventually chose to perceive them, not only a capacity to observe the world but a capacity to alter his or her observation of it — which, in the end, is the capacity to alter the world, itself. Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages," and those who act upon it, we call "artists."
“You have to recognize those writers who are artists in the same sense as the musicians.”
As quoted in "Meet Clare Fischer" http://cdassassin.wordpress.com/2010/10/28/1999-interview-at-allaboutjazz-com/

RODIN, AUGUSTE. L'Art. Entretiens réunis par Paul Gsell, 1911

“Only he is an artist who can make a riddle out of a solution.”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)

Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 57