Artists Quotes
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One thing we have built over the years is credibility and we have big, small and medium artists, Australian artists or international artists.
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So many artists try to be something that they're not.
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The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.
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As far as artists and musicians, they don't retire. They might tour less.
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The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
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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?
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Artists are people who create beauty. That's the bottom line.
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There are certain artists who have taken it upon themselves to save the world, and I find that gets tiresome. I think the artist's first obligation is to the art, not to the issues . . . I think if I have something to say the best way to do that is just to tell a damn good story.
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A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
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The artist's mission is to make the soul perceptible. Our scientific, materialist culture trains us to develop the eyes of outer perception. Visionary art encourages the development of our inner sight. To find the visionary realm, we use the intuitive inner eye: The eye of contemplation; the eye of the soul. All the inspiring ideas we have as artists originate here.
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Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
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I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.
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I have noted that, barring accidents, artists whose powers wear best and last longest are those who have trained themselves to work under adversity. Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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It's not what the artist does that counts; it's what he is.
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I want to keep acting and I want to keep working with high quality artists. I might be a bit spoiled because they're so good at what they do. I think the only way you learn is to surround yourself with people that are better than you.
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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.
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I like to work with the best artists, full stop, around the world, and just make things happen man.
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I very often think about doing things that I would want other artists to do. Like, if I'm a fan of whoever, I want to be treated a certain way. So I realized it came off almost elitist to ignore the whole world of Twitter and Facebook.
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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.
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Founders are truly artists – they see something no one else does.v
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Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they're doing now.
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Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
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What makes the music business wrong is when executives start to believe that they’re more important than the artists,I’ve never gotten to that place.
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I practice the artist's golden rule. I wouldn't want somebody telling me how to finish my painting, I'm not going to tell him how to finish his movie or how to shape his movie.
