Artists Quotes
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I don't want names, but you have to have bumped into some pretty nasty artists with pretty big chips on their shoulders. I'd like an anecdote about the most obnoxious personality you had the misfortune of working with, albeit as anonymously as you feel comfortable divulging.
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These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.
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I'm not interested in anything besides making some good music, helping some artists, being an executive. I'm pretty happy with that.
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Diane Arbus is one of the most mysterious, enigmatic, and frighteningly daring artists of the 20th century. Her work emerged from a deeply private place and profoundly affected all those who came into contact with it.
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
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I always maintain that artists do not have any responsibility to do anything except cause no harm and do whatever we want to do as artists.
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The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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Hip hop is ever changing and has definitely entered a new era. Many fans have mixed feelings over the direction of rap as more and more artists are emerging with content that some would describe as less than meaningful.
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I think that artists don't make art - the art makes itself through us. I'm not the doer. I'm just along for the ride. Acting really reminds me of that because I don't write the words; I don't make the decisions. That's the director. Narcissism is a tragic condition. It must be so miserable to live trapped in a reflection that only includes the smallest version of our identities. Our true identities should have no bounds and no limits.
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Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
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In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.
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Other artists' music is really what you get most inspiration from, whether consciously or subconsciously. I like a lot of old music and a lot of soul music. I also really like a lot of new stuff.
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I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
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I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.
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The moment you start thinking about what other people and other artists think, you're going to start writing like other people.
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Artists don’t live in the everyday world. That’s why people think they’re an odd bunch.
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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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I think the best advice I would give young artists is to always be working on your craft, because there are so many people out there with a dream similar to yours, a whole lot more than when I started.
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I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your bank account, whatever is going on in your life on the professional side.
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In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man.
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For me, artists and people that are passionate are fighting for what they believe in and what they want, and that's always appealing. I find that really interesting.
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My whole life, I have listened to people like Neil Young, or Crosby, Stills & Nash, and artists that have made a career out of the mellow, folky, acoustic dynamic.
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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.
