Artists Quotes
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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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For artists, there's a very fine line between delusion and belief.
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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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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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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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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
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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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It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.
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Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.
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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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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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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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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
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Artists are often poignantly careless about making and keeping friends.
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The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
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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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A lot of artists fail when they try to act, and they flop. So when I get into acting, it's going to be to do it well, something good, something of quality. I want people to say, 'Wow, that movie' - or that show or whatever - 'turned out really well.'
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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.
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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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I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.
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I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.
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The greatest artists always come round to simplicity.
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All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.
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Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
