Artists Quotes
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All artists are equal when they are themselves.
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The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne. Those are the people that we wanted to model ourselves after. Throwing on the Cartier frames, the army-style fatigue jackets.
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I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.
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It's important for artists to value themselves - whatever that means. Everyone's going to take that in a different way. If you don't value yourself, you will be bought and sold.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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I met India Arie, who is one of my favorite artists of all time. It was really sweet; I was broken up with a month before, and she stayed up texting me all night and was helping me through it. Her text message looks like a song of hers. She's sort of become my fairy godmother.
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
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Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.
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Artists should work together like the artists of the Middle Ages.
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When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched.
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Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.
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Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.
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My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
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It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"
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I think PSY opened a lot of doors for K-pop artists.
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Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.
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Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
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I am in love with old school funk and soul music. That's what I grew up listening to, and I want to bring that style back with my music. I love artists like Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind, & Fire, Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake, and more!
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
