Artists Quotes
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Some of the most unhappy artists in the most difficult situations can create awe-inspiring works of art.
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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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While artists fervently believe that the art marketplace was invented by the devil and remains in his henchman's hands, they have no choice but to carry long spoons and sup there.
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The beauty other people create is not for the artists. Artists have to live alone.
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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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There really is no such thing as art. There are only artists.
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Blues artists now try and stay in a box. Back in the day at all the clubs you would see James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, The Isley Brothers, Little Richard and Etta James all play the same venues. It was a mix of funk, soul, blues and rock 'n' roll.
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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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This is a speech we've all heard before. From the con artists who aren't like the burglars, who aren't like the armed robbers, who only ever broke a bone if the victim had it coming and the murderers who made 'one mistake' and are forced to pay for it for the rest of their lives. They want to know what you're doing about the real criminals, the rapists and the paedophiles. Who want to know why you're wasting resources on them when we should be tackling female genital mutilation or political corruption.
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People become artists out of despair.
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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.
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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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There are artists who are very well known and many of us feel they should be less well known, while there are others who aren't well known and many feel deserve more attention.
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Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.
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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
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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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..and the first thing for he artists of Die Brücke was free drawing from the free human figure in the freedom of nature.. .We drew and we painted. Hundreds of paintings a day, with talk and fooling in between, the artists joining the models before the easel and vice versa. All the encounters of everyday life were incorporated in our memories in this way. The studio became the home of the people who were being drawn; they learned from the artists and the painters from them. The picture made took on immediate and abundant life.
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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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All men are creative but few are artists.
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True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
