Takeover Artist

Famous quotes containing the words takeover and/or artist:

“A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)

“An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.”
—Willem De Kooning (b. 1904)