Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quotes
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
Van Cliburn -
I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.
Beck -
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Walter Gropius -
Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
Fetty Wap
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
Kaskade -
I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
Gary Clark Jr. -
R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
Babyface -
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
Kara Walker -
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 -
Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
Karen Bender
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
Carl Andre -
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
Kara Walker -
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 -
Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
Irwin Winkler -
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
P. J. Harvey -
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
Langston Hughes
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
Wallace Stevens -
He's very cautious with guys' health and bodies. But he still wants us to be in tip-top shape.
Antoine Walker -
Regardless of any feedback. I love being a solo artist and having creative control. But it can be very nourishing and informative and flex very different creative muscles to work for someone else. You are essentially employed by the director. I love the challenge of that.
KT Tunstall -
We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.
Berl Katznelson -
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!
Ed Koch -
Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe