Artists Quotes
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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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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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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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As artists and creative people it's such an important time to be expressive and be empowering and supportive of people. It is a time where I feel like everyone has to be together and say, "Hey, we're all going to be okay. We just need to work together."
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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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Street artists want to add something to the environment. They consider the audience, whereas graffiti writers don't care about anyone except themselves, they do it purely for the kick.
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Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
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At first glance it would seem, of course, that no two subjects could possibly be further apart than an underground society of pickup artists and supercomputer chess. What on earth do these two narratives have to do with each other—and what do they have to do with asserting myself as human in the Turing test? The answer is surprising, and it hinges on what chess players call “getting out of book.” We’ll look at what that means in chess and in conversation, how to make it happen, and what the consequences are if you don’t.
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I don't like the notion that artists have a responsibility to be political.
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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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Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
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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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Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.
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True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
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My work is independent of my will. My best works are created when driven by an inner strength. This has nothing to do with my will. It is that immediate spontaneity of my intense way of living that makes the difference between my work and a lot of other artists who make art works with their mind.
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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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Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
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Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
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I like handsome-devil artists the best.
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I respect all artists, just some more than the others. Because it's something that really needs to be done.
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It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.
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I’ve seen a lot of musicians play that, and I don’t want to do that because I have a saying that most artists are failures as human beings.
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Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.
