The true artist is like one of those scientists who, from a single bone can reconstruct an animal's entire body.

The artist looks at an ankle, a calf, a bosom and, in his mind's eye, the clothes drop away and he sees her as she really is.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now ''.

In the work of every artist, I suppose, there may be found one or more moments which strike the student as absolutely decisive, ultimately emblematic of what it is all about ; ;

it is particularly the artist ( Tonio Kroger, Aschenbach, Leverkuhn ) who suffers from it.

The artist, unlike the philosopher, is not a removed observer aiming at neutral and rarified high levels of abstraction.

This arrangement was for Copernicus literally monstrous: `` With ( the Ptolemaists ) it is as though an artist were to gather the hands, feet, head and other members for his images from divers models, each part excellently drawn, but not related to a single body ; ;

Paula's older brother is Edward Steichen, a talented artist and, for the past half-century, one of the world's eminent photographers.

One might argue that the ultimate purpose of literary scholarship is to correct this spontaneous provincialism that is likely to obscure the horizons of the general public, of the newspaper critic, and of the creative artist himself.

Malraux, to be sure, does not abandon the world of violence, combat and sudden death which has become his hallmark as a creative artist, and which is the only world, apparently, in which his imagination can flame into life.

he is far from being a literary hero, yet is a creative artist.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

`` Speed in painting a picture is valid only when it imparts spontaneity and crispness, but unless the artist has lots of experience so that he can control rapid execution, he would do well to take these first sketches and soberly reorder their design to achieve a unified composition.

This is when his troubles begin, not to mention a fledgling artist who he hires, and who turns out to have ideas of his own, with particular respect to the hero's sweetheart-secretary.

His portrayal of an edgy head-in-the-clouds artist is virtually flawless.

By the end of the third act, the artist is dead but the body lingers on, a shell among other shells.

On the whole, however, one must wonder at just what it is that forces a beloved artist to besmirch her own reputation as time marches inexorably on.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

Miss Schwarzkopf is too great an artist to need them.

`` The artist is like a fragment of a mosaic -- no, he is more than that, a virtuoso performer in some vast philharmonic.

* Salvatore Iro, artist, author of Manifesto Art is ... Shit, a collection of works conceived to decrypt the language of modern and contemporary art, in 2012 creates the artwork Ceci est une pomme, marked by the subheading: " non aristotelian obviousness ".

It is the largest museum in the United States of America dedicated to a single artist.

The person of the artist becomes a final bastion of meaning in a world rendered meaningless by the march of events and the decay of classical religious and philosophical systems.

An artist also may be defined unofficially as " a person who expresses him-or herself through a medium ".

") Erasmus spoke favourably of Holbein as an artist and person, but later criticized Holbein whom he had accused of sponging off of various patrons to whom Erasmus had recommended, for purposes more of monetary gain than artistic endeavor.

Captain Janeway's efforts resulted in the Doctor being accorded the status of ' artist ', ( though not a " person ").

" The focus for Basil in the 1890 edition seems to be more towards love, whereas the Basil of the 1891 edition cares more for his art, saying " the one person who gives my art whatever charm it may possess: my life as an artist depends on him.

In a television interview shown in August 2000, when asked about what influence his Irish Catholic and Russian Jewish ancestry may have had on his life as a person and as an artist, Ford humorously stated " As a man I've always felt Irish, as an actor I've always felt Jewish.

Such people, who may be real but impersonated people or fictitious characters played by the con artist, could include, for example, the wife or son of a deposed African or Indonesian leader or dictator who has amassed a stolen fortune, or a bank employee who knows of a terminally ill wealthy person with no relatives or a wealthy foreigner who deposited money in the bank just before dying in a plane crash ( leaving no will or known next of kin ), a US soldier who has stumbled upon a hidden cache of gold in Iraq, a business being audited by the government, a disgruntled worker or corrupt government official who has embezzled funds, a refugee, and similar characters.

On June 15, 2012, high wire artist Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk across the falls in 116 years, after receiving special permission from both governments.

" Four Generals of Zhongxing " by Southern Song Dynasty artist Liu Songnian ( 1174 – 1224 ); the renowned general Yue Fei ( 1103 – 1142 ) is the second person from the left.

" He did however state his admiration of Georg Baselitz, the De Stijl artist Piet Mondrian, and Vincent van Gogh ; after seeing van Gogh's paintings in person, Van Vliet quoted himself as saying that " the sun disappoints me so ".

Administration of the Eucharist to a dying person ( painting by 19th-century artist Alexey Venetsianov )

The con artist thus poses as a trustworthy person seeking another trustworthy person.

The term refers to an " artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person.

One famous person known to have grown up in Denair is artist and musician Doug TenNapel.

Image: BeuysAchberg78. jpg | Performance artist Joseph Beuys in 1978: Jeder Mensch ein Künstler — Auf dem Weg zur Freiheitsgestalt des sozialen Organismus-Every person an artist — On the way to the libertarian form of the social organism

" Self-actualization " might not effectively convey his observations that this higher level of motivation is really about focusing on becoming the best person one can possibly become, in the service of both the self and others: " A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

James, who worked at a sweatshop nearby on Canal Street and dreaded going home after school, visited Beauford — at 181 Greene Street — who became a mentor to James, his first realization that a black person could be an artist.

Anonymity is directly related to the concept of obscurantism or pseudonymity, where an artist or group attempts to remain anonymous, for various reasons, not limited to: adding an element of mystique to themselves and / or their work, attempting to avoid what is known as the " cult of personality " or hero worship, where the charisma, good looks, wealth and / or other unrelated or mildly related aspects of the person ( s ) is the main reason for interest in their work, rather than the work itself ; also the ability to break into a field or area of interest normally dominated by males, such as James Tiptree, Jr, the famous science fiction author who was actually a woman named Alice Bradley Sheldon, as seems to also be the case with JT LeRoy.

Russ Meyer's lifelong unabashed fixation on large breasts featured prominently in all his films and is his best known character trait both as an artist and as a person.

A person who claimed to have the power to call up spirits, or foretell the future, or cast spells, or discover the whereabouts of stolen goods, was to be punished as a vagrant and a con artist, subject to fines and imprisonment.

His journey toward Rome was made in company of an artist named Carter, described as " a captious, cross-grained and self conceited person who kept a regular journal of his tour in which he set down the smallest trifle that could bear a construction unfavorable to the American's character.

The comic artist Jacques Tardi adapted some of his books much to the author's approval claiming that he was the sole person to have visually understood his books ; Tardi also provided cover illustrations for the Fleuve Noir editions of the novels, released from the 1980s onward.