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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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
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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
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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
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Salman Rushdie
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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
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When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.
C. S. Lewis
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Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.
Burton Silverman
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Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
Edward T. Hall
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In person, George W. Bush is extremely forceful. He has a restless energy when he sits in a chair, and nearly leaps out of it when making certain points.
Rich Lowry
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A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
Stevie Smith