Artists Quotes
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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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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.
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I have seen some pretty big mismatches with artists and brands. It is no longer days of just sponsorship, rather it’s more about working with people who are likeminded.
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Artists say that paintings are never done. I sort of feel the same way about music. I would never say something is perfect. There are performances that can generate a lot of emotion in me when I hear them, but I can't say if anything is perfect.
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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I once heard some idiot on the radio saying that all great art has suffering as its dominant theme, and that the greatest artists are only able to create because they suffer immensely in their own lives. What a bunch of bullshit. Look at Van Gogh's paintings: there's as much joy in them as there is pain. Suffering is only a single color, and by itself it's boring.
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The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.
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The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.
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Artists and creative workers - people who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They haven't been contented with mediocrity. They haven't confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others do them, but always a little better. Few are those who see with their own eyesand feel with their own hearts.
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All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
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Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.
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I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
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I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
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Usually I get inspired by singles and not artists, but I love Macklemore.
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Like books, artists have their fates.
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Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.
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A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.
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I usually work with artists only, so I do my research on them first, then I listen to their previous material and watch interviews they did. That way, I could get a wider idea of where they come from and what their taste in music is.
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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.
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There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
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I think for the open-minded, I'm a lot like Luciano Pavarotti... But I don't know the technique. I'm learning. I think Pavarotti was a citizen of the world. He was very eclectic. He sang with Sting and with a lot of other pop artists, and this open-mindedness, for me, is very important.
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The Internet is a big reason I've been successful so far. It's working for a lot of new wave artists, which I consider myself a part of.
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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
