Artists Quotes
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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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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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Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.
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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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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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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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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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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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Writers who are activists are very rarely taken seriously as 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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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 artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
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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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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 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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Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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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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All Children are Artists.
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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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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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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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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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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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Artists need to express.
