Artists Quotes
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My parents divorced. There was the usual awkward business of going between them, but I was mostly with my mother. She remarried to a Greek painter Nico Ghika, so we were always around artists and intellectuals.
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Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
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Being Southern and being the guy I've been all my life, I've lived more on the lighter side of life. I have a dark side, but that's not where I come from. A lot of artists like to come from that.
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Artists should agitate and democratize their own work, but they should also work to democratize the arts themselves.
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My music style has changed and evolved so much throughout the years and I take inspiration from many diverse artists.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.
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Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.
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Artists complain about the art world until it starts rubbing their back, then they have their love affair with it.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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I think PSY opened a lot of doors for K-pop artists.
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I get a lot of backlash for wearing designers that I feel are creators and artists. I get it all the time.
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I think L.A. radio is learning from the Bay. The Bay is a very classic place. Mac Mall, C-Bo, all that stuff, they love their artists, they're old school up there. My first big concert was playing in the Bay; I played the Fillmore.
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A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the big time and become failed novelists.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as artists.
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I can't speak for other artists; every group has a different approach. For us, it will always be important to keep working hard, dancing better, writing better songs, touring, and setting an example.
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The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
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We’re living in the age of discovery. I think it is almost more exciting to release music with newer artists.
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Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.
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When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
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Artists need to express.
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Dance is certainly a sport, and they are phenomenal athletes, and they're also artists.
