An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Interpretation
An artist's impact reaches beyond their immediate surroundings to the entire world.
This quote by Carl Maria Von Weber highlights the far-reaching influence of artists and their work. It suggests that art has the power to transcend geographical and cultural boundaries, affecting people and societies on a global scale. Artists have the ability to express universal themes and emotions that resonate with a diverse audience, making their contributions significant in shaping world culture and thought.
In practice
This quote could be used in a speech at an art gallery opening to emphasize the power of art.
I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.
Collage is the noble conquest of the irrational, the coupling of two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them.
When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.
Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.
When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.
An artist's job is to surprise himself. Use all means possible.
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