Stevie Smith Quotes
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.Stevie Smith
Quotes to Explore
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
Natalie Cole -
I think the line is where you're in the studio, you're creating. That belongs to you as an artist. Nothing should taint that. I shouldn't be thinking about what the fans want, I shouldn't be thinking about what the radio wants, what the label wants, what your manager wants, a song for the chicks, a song for the street.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
J. D. Salinger -
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Eddie Murphy -
Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
Cameron Dallas -
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
Camille Paglia
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Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of some kind, you were the weirdo.
iO Tillett Wright -
I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
Gary Hume -
Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
Isaac Hanson Hanson -
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Aaron Johnson -
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Ad Reinhardt -
If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
Samuel L. Jackson -
I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm not certain about whether any writer, any artist, any musician, can write without regret, so I don't think perhaps it's even particularly Southern.
Barry Hannah -
It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
Bebe Rexha -
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Salman Rushdie -
I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
Raekwon -
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Langston Hughes
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What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?
William Morris -
History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.
Yasiin Bey Black Star -
A game of chess is not an examination of knowledge; it is a battle of nerves.
David Bronstein -
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
Haruki Murakami -
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
Stevie Smith