„[You've said your material chooses you. ] That's the difference between the serious artist and the craftsman—-the craftsman can take material and because of his abilities do a professional job of it. The serious artist, like Proust, is like an object caught by a wave and swept to shore. He's obsessed by his material; it's like a venom working in his blood and the art is the antidote.“

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— Truman Capote

From a 1968 interview
Truman Capote: Conversations (1987)

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americký autor 1924 - 1984

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„I am not an artist and never have been. Rather I am like a craftsman and feel very close to the mediaeval artisans who produced their work anonymously and who, along with their apprentices, had a true feeling for the physical materials they were working with.“

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— Werner Herzog German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and opera director 1942

Herzog on Herzog (2002)

„Art leads to a more profound concept of life, because art itself is a profound expression of feeling. The artist is born, and art is the expression of his overflowing soul. Because his soul is rich, he cares comparatively little about the superficial necessities of the material world; he sublimates the pressure of material affairs in an artistic experience.“

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— Hans Hofmann American artist 1880 - 1966

'Painting and Culture' p. 56
Search for the Real and Other Essays (1948)

„He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.“

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— Francis of Assisi Catholic saint and founder of the Franciscan Order 1182 - 1226

This quote was actually composed by Louis Nizer, and published in his book, Between You and Me (1948).
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Varianta: He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman. He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.

„The skills of the modern artist are the opposite of those of the craftsman: instead of acquiring techniques for producing classes of objects, the artist today perfects the means suited to his particular work.“

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— Harold Rosenberg American writer and art critic 1906 - 1978

Zdroj: Art & Other Serious Matters, (1985), p. 51, "Inquest into Modernism"

„.. the present painter is not concerned with the process. Herein lies the difference between them and the Surrealists. At the same time in his desire, in his will to set down the ordered truth.... it can be said that the artist like a true creator is delving into chaos. It is precisely this that makes him an artist for the Creator in creating the world began with the same material, for the artist tries to wrest truth from the void..“

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— Barnett Newman American artist 1905 - 1970

Zdroj: 1940 - 1950, The Plasmic Image 2. 1943-1945, p. 126

„The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.“

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— Oscar Wilde, kniha The Picture of Dorian Gray

Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray

„Fortunately, a sculptor's style and aim are, to a great extent, dictated to him by his materials. To make a sculpture seem at all moving or inspiring, an artist must, of course, be gifted with a certain personality that speaks movingly through the subject and materials of his work. But he must select appropriate materials, and use them appropriately, too... My materials often dictate my change of aims, and I choose to work in a different material much as a man may suddenly feel an appetite for a change in diet.“

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— Ossip Zadkine French sculptor 1890 - 1967

c. 1960
Zdroj: 1960 - 1968, Dialogues – conversations with.., quotes, c. 1960, pp. 154-155

„A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.“

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— Louis Nizer American lawyer 1902 - 1994

Between You and Me, Beechurst Press, 1948.

„The artist must learn the difference between the appearance of an object and the interpretation of this object through his medium. The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.“

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— Auguste Rodin French sculptor 1840 - 1917

Attributed to Rodin in: Southwestern Art Vol. 6 (1977). p. 20; Partly cited in: A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson, p. 7
1930s and later

„Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. Of those three components only one, the medium, is material.“

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— Hans Hofmann American artist 1880 - 1966

As quoted in Hans Hofmann (1963) by William Chapin Seitz, p. 15
1960s

„You know, all insanity is a form of artistic expression, I often think. Only the person has nothing but himself to work with—he can’t get at outside materials to manipulate them—so he puts all his art into his behavior.“

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— Fritz Leiber, kniha Our Lady of Darkness

Zdroj: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 10 (p. 56)

„Merz paintings are abstract works of art. The word 'Merz' essentially means the totality of all imaginable materials that can be used for artistic purposes and technically the principle that all of these individual materials have equal value. Merz art makes use not just of paint and canvas, brush and palette, but all the materials visible to the eye and all tools needed.... the wheel off a pram, wire mesh, string and cotton balls – these are factors of equal value to paints. The artist creates by choosing, distributing and reshaping the materials.“

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— Kurt Schwitters German artist 1887 - 1948

1910s
Zdroj: 'Merz Painting' (1919); as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2000, p. 91.

„There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.“

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— Emile Zola French writer (1840-1902) 1840 - 1902

Letter to Paul Cézanne (16 April 1860), as published in Paul Cézanne : Letters (1995) edited by John Rewald.

„We are talking about an artist; and for the enjoyment of the artist the mask must be to some extent moulded on the face. What he makes outside him must correspond to something inside him; he can only make his effects out of some of the materials of his soul.“

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— G. K. Chesterton English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874 - 1936

The Dagger with Wings (1926)

„The word "interview" is written as taking material. If you come in contact with it like you want to take such material, it will be transmitted. So, instead of taking material, you are I think it's all about listening with the desire to know and listen to your story.“

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— Miri Yu Zainichi Korean writer 1968

As quoted in "For those who have no place to live" A story spun by Miri Yu" in Teller Report (17 December 2020) https://www.tellerreport.com/life/2020-12-17-%0A---%22for-those-who-have-no-place-to-live%22-a-story-spun-by-miri-yu-%0A--.B1br_RudnD.html