Walter Pater Quotes

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul.

Great art can only be created out of love.

A painted landscape is always more beautiful than a real one, because there's more there. Everything is more sensual, and one takes refuge in its beauty.

What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!

Every team member who brings intelligence, experience and passion to their creations should be called an artist or designer.

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

The artist must be ecstatic about something.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.

I have so much music that I do. Just like how a visual artist is always sketching something but they might not share it, I'm always writing songs or coming up with melodic lines on piano or guitar. It's therapy. It's always happening.

I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.

Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.

Dancing is when you rise above both worlds, tearing your heart to pieces & giving up your soul

Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him.

The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet.

Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

When an artist explains what he is doing, he usually has to do one of two things: either scrap what he has explained, or make his work fit in with the explanation.

Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

Literature is ... a game, but it's a game one can put one's life into.

To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their music and through their songwriting. There's people that can do it instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn't have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences.

It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.

I think that the song, the song "Stand By Me" is one of those songs that... and someone asked me, what was you thinking about or what was you feeling about? It's something that, songwriters just write songs. It's like an artist that paints. They paint what they feel. It's not, it's not about how many of these painting I'll sell it's just how they feel at the moment. And that's how I wrote "Stand By Me".