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Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed. (Scott Adams)
Commissions are a collaboration of sorts since they reflect the artist's taste as well as the client's. (Phyllis Behar)
A painting might commence as a figurative, transparent watercolor, but after the two of us have had our 'what-are-we-going-for?' conversation, a completely non-objective, mixed-media work might evolve. (Avie Biedinger)
hybrid, n. A pooled issue. (Ambrose Bierce)
-of Dalziel & Scullion...
The most liberating thing is breaking away from that myth of the artist as 'special unique individual' - the solitary Kafka-like personality working away on their own and in suffering... it is far more enjoyable to discuss ideas with someone who has also invested in the work... (Matthew Dalziel)
The reward of a successful collaboration is a thing that cannot be produced by either of the parties working alone. It is akin to the benefits of sex with a partner, as opposed to masturbation. The latter is fun, but you show me anyone who has gotten a baby from playing with him or herself, and I'll show you an ugly baby, with just a whole bunch of knuckles. (Harlan Ellison)
When, once, a budding artist could apprentice to a master and learn by doing – today it is a TV show where people get humiliated and fired in front of millions of viewers. (Susan Gallacher-Turner)
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. (Andre Gide)
In the evening by lamp or candlelight each showed the other his sketches. This was a time for criticism, encouragement and discussion... (Lawren Harris)
-on sketching trip with Tom Thomson, Fred Varley, and Arthur Lismer...
That autumn of 1914 was wonderful, with sunny days and frosty nights... In the evening by the campfire, we discussed plans for the next day while we cooked good, husky meals. (A. Y. Jackson)
-on collaborating with Jay Moore...
Working with another artist is similar to a musical collaboration. We are starting with Jay's compositions, and I am helping him play them on a different instrument. (Geoff Lasko)
-to G. F. Watts...
Watts, if I could paint, and you could draw, what an artist we should be! (Lord Frederic Leighton)
Let's you and I conjure together. You watch me and I'll watch you and I will show you how to show me how to show you how to do our marvelous human tricks together. (Courtney Milne)
I really like doing work that is a collaboration between customer and artist. It is a leftover from my days as a sign painter. (Maureen Moezeo)
The unconscious is our best collaborator. (Mike Nichols)
-The Maybe
I've done some collaborations which have ended up like Chinese whispers, but the most successful was with Tilda Swinton... Together we transcended our previous work and made something better together than we could have done apart. (Cornelia Parker)
With collaborations you never follow the same palette. (Robin Rimbaud)
It takes two people to enjoy a painting. The artist writes his story and the art patron 'reads' the work. (Cynde Roof)
Perhaps our work must be without a human buddy, yet a deeper relationship grows with something indescribable that assists us directly. This unseen energy is what we get to collaborate with, and sometimes it takes our hand and guides us profoundly. (Linda Saccoccio)
You have to be part psychologist and part politician to work creatively and collaboratively... (Nina Sadowsky)
It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it. (Richard Schmid)
I trust my work. It's a collaboration with the material, and when it's viewed, it's a collaboration with the world. (Kiki Smith)
Leave enough ambiguity in your paintings so that there is room for the viewer's imagination to contribute to the experience, making it a collaboration. (Darla Tagrin)
Every collaboration brings unfamiliar nuances to an instrumental language that has become highly developed and essentially self-contained. (David Toop)
By the time a partnership dissolves, it has dissolved. (John Updike)
I think that in a lifetime there are only a few people you can work with... where you can trust each other and push each other in different directions. (Errollyn Wallen)
I'm constantly thinking about trying to piece together collaborators... All disciplines can be narrow... (Judith Weir)
The moment someone other than the artist determines the 'product,' the product becomes a collaboration. How many signatures belong at the bottom of a collaboration? (David Wayne Wilson)
Some collaboration has to take place in the mind... before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. (Virginia Woolf)
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