Artists Quotes
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Ruefully admitting we can neither remain children nor all become artists still less saints and mystics, we turn back, regretfully, but massively, to the time-ridden world.
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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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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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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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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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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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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
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Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
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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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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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People become artists out of despair.
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Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
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I find a ton of inspiration from the artists that I'm writing with, that I'm playing shows with, and that I'm sitting down and having coffee with.
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Men who not religious or artists are fools.
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More people than ever are spending money to support more artists and musicians and give them more leisure time to build cereal balls...and the art world is eating those balls up!
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Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.
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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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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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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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All men are creative but few are artists.
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Art has been hijacked by nonartists. It's been taken over by bookkeeping. The whole thing is so corrupt. But I suppose that's okay. For artists, everything is grist for the mill. Artists are like cockroaches; we can't be stamped out.
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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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Artists always live in the cracks anyway, whatever culture they're in. They're usually accustomed to not having much money, to kind of roughing it.
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All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.
