VITALIZING ART
“Artistic talent is like a brilliant firework which streaks across a pitch-black night, inspiring awe among onlookers but extinguishing itself in seconds, leaving behind only darkness and longing.”
- The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Here, I’ve decided to arrange a list of creatives that I find inspiring or worth talking about! It's an incomplete personal collection, but you may find it of use.
Illustrators:
- Yoshitaka Amano
- Carson Ellis
- Sakamoto Hayato
- Tove Jansson
- Tomokazu Komiya
- Ryoko Kui
- Kay Nielsen
- Beatrix Potter
- Valentin Seiche
- Maurice Sendak
- Fabrice Tarrin
- Osamu Tezuka
Writers:
- Cressida Cowell
- Mikhail Bulgakov
- Osamu Dazai
- Bohumil Hrabal
- Haruki Murakami
- George Orwell
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- J.D. Salinger
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Animators:
- Mary Blair
- Don Bluth
- Sally Cruikshank
- Amanda Forbis
- Hiroyuki Imaishi
- Milt Kahl
- Satoshi Kon
- Ben Li
- Wendy Tilby
- Richard Williams
- Masaaki Yuasa
- Victoria Vincent
Designers:
- Noma Bar
- Herbert Bayer
- Mark Blaustein
- Tom Eckersley
- Mike Joyce
- Theyre Lee-Elliott
- Miron Lykyanov
- Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Peter Mendelsund
- Derrick J. Wyatt
Above is the most broad list of creators as it covers makers of objects, logos, character design, and so on.
“Artists interested in becoming famous in our society should know that it is not they who will become famous, but another version of themselves with the same name, and that other version will eventually take over and perhaps, one day, kill the true artist within them.”
- Create Dangerously by Albert Camus