“No artist is ahead of his time. He is the time. It is just that others are behind the time.”
quote, 1984 - from ATV', 188; p. 49
Karel Appel, a gesture of colour' (1992/2009)
As quoted in Gramophone (1962), Vol. 40, Part 2, p. 389
Context: Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. I was the first composer to explore, so to speak, musical outer space.
On his album Post-War and the postwar music of the late 1940s and 50s, as quoted in Vanity Fair (August 2006)
“A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.”
Steve Blank in interview with Jake Cook, "Steve Blank: Lessons From 35 Years of Making Startups Fail Less" http://99u.com/articles/7256/steve-blank-lessons-from-35-years-of-making-startups-fail-less, U99 website, 2013.
“Like the Roman senators, true artists are a nation of kings.”
Wie die Senatoren der Römer sind die wahren Künstler ein Volk von Königen.
“Ideas,” Lucinde and the Fragments, P. Firchow, trans. (1991), § 114
