Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) French Post-Impressionist artist
Source: 1870s - 1880s, The Writings of a Savage (1996), p. 39: 'Huysmans and Redon', (written in 1889, published 1953)
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Gino Severini (1883–1966) Italian painter
Original in Italian:<br>ho trovato nel vostro libro la conferma delle mie ultime conclusioni e gli strumenti per approfondire questo as petto della questione artistica. <br class="br">In a letter to Jacques Maritain, 18 September, 1923; as quoted in: Justine Grace, 'The Spirit of Collaboration: Gino Severini, Jacques Maritain, Anton Luigi Gajoni and the Roman Mosaicists' http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/colloquy/download/colloquy_issue_twenty-two/grace.pdf, COLLOQUY text theory critique Vol 22 (2011).
Lady Gaga (1986) American singer, songwriter, and actress
Lady Gaga Interview with ARTISTdirect http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/news/article/0,,4931544,00.html.
“Ideas worth questioning: "Being an artist is a job for life."”
Brian Eno (1948) English musician, composer, record producer and visual artist
June 25, 1995, p. 140
A Year With Swollen Appendices (1996)
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
“Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.”
Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist
1975 - 1987
Source: Philosophy of Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1975, p. 178
“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”
Henry Miller book Tropic of Cancer
Source: Tropic of Cancer
“We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?”
Roberto Bolaño book The Savage Detectives
Source: The Savage Detectives
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
"Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
Context: Art is a mystery.
A mystery is something immeasurable.
In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn’t matter a very good God damn...