Michelangelo Quotes
A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection.
Quotes to Explore
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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.
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You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.
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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.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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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.
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You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it's not going to drive you.
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I always try to be a universalist, not a specialist.
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To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new.
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There's a starman waiting in the sky, he'd like to come and meet us, but he thinks he'd blow our minds.
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Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.
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A good artist ought never to allow impatience to overcome his sense of the main end of art - perfection.
