William McElcheran quotes

For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
-- William McElcheran

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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.

Poems very seldom consist of poetry and nothing else; and pleasure can be derived also from their other ingredients. I am convinced that most readers, when they think they are admiring poetry, are deceived by inability to analyse their sensations, and that they are really admiring, not the poetry of the passage before them, but something else in it, which they like better than poetry.

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me.

While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.

An artist who dedicates his life to art, burdens his art with his life, and his life with his art.

I'm a craftsman. I'm an actor.