Artists Quotes
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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.
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There is nothing romantic in the poverty of artists except to those who ogle the starving
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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 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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Surprisingly, I don't throw away that much. I don't move forward with a lot of things unless they're going somewhere. You also have to remember that when you're working with other artists, you have to be really careful about how you deal with that stuff.
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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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I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me with a deep latent sadness in the expression. None of the artists or pictures has caught the deep, though subtle and indirect expression of this man's face. There is something else there. One of the great portrait painters of two or three centuries ago is needed.
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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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Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.
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To me, the most important artists in my career are Arcangel and Balvin. Arcangel gave me the push, the respect in the streets.
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For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.
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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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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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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 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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Founders are truly artists – they see something no one else does.v
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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.
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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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All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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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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There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
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Great artists treasure their time with a bitter and snarling miserliness.
