Artists Quotes
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There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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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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The thing about artists is that they tell stories. I mean, some paintings are like novels.
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People become artists out of despair.
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The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
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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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..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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All men are creative but few are artists.
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Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
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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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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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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'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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Men who not religious or artists are fools.
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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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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 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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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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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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Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.
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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 are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.
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True artists pursue greatness in craft in order to give the Lord the best fruit of the talent He has given them, not to build themselves up. They understand that true greatness is found in the heart of the servant.
