Artists Quotes
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Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
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For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.
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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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Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.
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Things have changed. I almost feel like it's more adaptable, and you can decide your own career now. I feel artists have so much more of a voice and so much more power now. It's really inspiring to see how a lot of the young artists use their platforms.
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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
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I find that there are few reviews that extol women as wonderful artists.
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Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves, they do it purely for the kick.
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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 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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Conventional wisdom can get us into so much trouble, especially as artists.
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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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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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It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
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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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Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.
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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 thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
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We finally have a damn voice. We feel like actual artists. We were little babies in the beginning. Now we're becoming big girls.
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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
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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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I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.
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Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
