Artists Quotes
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as 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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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.
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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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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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It's not about battling the original artists when I record these songs, it's about paying tribute to them.
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I feel that every professional is the art school for the next guy. I feel that maybe a lot of the dynamism in my own work, having been felt by the rest of the artists, they'll react to it and put elements of that in their own work, feeling that it'll help it.
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We are so blessed as artists and entertainers, and we should use our powers to raise awareness of things where we can.
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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 have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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Our job as actors, especially in front of a camera, is almost like textile artists. We spend so much time getting the right texture of yarn, and working out the color scheme, and binding off the weave, and making it just right.
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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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The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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I think that that's why artists make art - it is difficult to put into words unless you are a poet. What it takes is being open to the flow of universal creativity. The Zen artists knew this.
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All Children are Artists.
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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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The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems.
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Artists - musicians, painters, writers, poets - always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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I buy the CDs of my favorite artists like Journey, Death Cab for Cutie, and The Format.
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Artists need to express.
