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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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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There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.
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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 are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
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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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Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.
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If I did a Rock record, it would be equally as truthful because I love Rock. I had to actually sing to Bon Jovi one time and I felt like he believed me. He's one of my favorite artists, so there's nothing better than the truth.
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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 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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All men are creative but few are artists.
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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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My favourite artists are the ones who are human, and you know they're not in a failure-proof environment.
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People become artists out of despair.
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Instagram was initially launched as a community for artists and photographers.
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The motivation of all artists is 'Look at me, Mum'.
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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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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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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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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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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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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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All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.
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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.'
