Artists Quotes
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When you cross any border there is always an uneasy moment when you feel yourself automatically an enemy. Artists don’t belong to any group or country... When you are living the truth, the world no longer exists, events become unimportant. But the way of truth is not easy.. ..if you are on the side of truth, you have no power. That’s why you are always defeated. The power, all the power, is on the side of the world.. .I have been completely absorbed in my adventure. No country, no family, no ties. I didn’t exist anymore. I just had to press on.
Bram van Velde
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My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
Laurie Anderson
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I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost because of AIDS. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's Hospital who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.
Aaron Brookner
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Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants. A good scientist has freed himself of concepts and keeps his mind open to what is.
Lao Tzu
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I love being a mommy, and I love being an artist, and I love being a singer and an actress and making a movie - all that stuff I feel very passionate about, so I have a lot of energy for it.
Melora Hardin
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Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
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Generally I would say that I'm not a super-adventurous shadow girl. I'm all about a lip, eyebrow, and mascara, but through the years, working with different talented makeup artists, I learned how awesome eye makeup can be if you get it right. That's how we got the colors we came up with.
Gwen Stefani
No Doubt
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We don't necessarily need so many artists. I recommend that many of the people who think they want to be artists should go into the American Friends Service Committee, or do government outreach to communities that don't have water, or that need seeds or ecological assistance. It would create a system in which people with engaged sensibilities and potential insight assist instead of imposing. I think it could leap right out of the art world into wonderful community action.
Carolee Schneemann
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Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?
Mahatma Gandhi
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The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
David Gilmour
Pink Floyd
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If some people are right, artists are put into this world not to practice their art, but to talk about it. And judging by the flattering invitations many a humble climber will receive to pontificate from the lowest rung but one of the ladder, humanity is in a dangerously receptive frame of mind, and artists a race devoid of either modesty or sense of humor.
Ethel Smyth
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The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.
Bram van Velde
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Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.
Phil Collen
Def Leppard
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What's that Regina Spektor song? Museums are like mausoleums. Having your work in a museum is something we as artists aspire to, but I don't think that's something we need to worry about while we're alive. Typically your work will end up in a museum after you're dead. And maybe that's the function of a museum. It's an archive of your work after you're dead. But while we're alive, I like to see it in places where it's connected to day-to-day life and making a difference.
Eric Drooker
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Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
Wayne White
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I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.
Ben Lerner
