Artists Quotes
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We must ask nothing of artists but to be of their own time.
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You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
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What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which is related only to objects and not to individuals, or to life. That art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who are artists. But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp or the house be an art object, but not our life?
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It is an error common to many artists, who strive merely to avoid mistakes, when all our efforts should be to create positive and important work. Better positive and important with mistakes and failures than perfect mediocrity.
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I want to work hard without forgetting our original intention and our modesty, for us to become artists that will grow.
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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material....
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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
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I'm just so thrilled that all these contemporary artists want to sing with me. They're all making me feel so good.
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My biggest surprise is probably the level of involvement of all the artists in Valerian who participated at every level.
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I think everyone who does something creative has got some kind of flaw or insecurity that helps drive them to do what they do. As a general rule, artists value themselves quite low; that’s why they want to add value by doing things. Weaknesses often become your biggest strengths. People with no insecurities don’t tend to make very good art
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The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do.
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Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.
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Radio is so cutthroat, but I do feel like the music industry is structured so differently than it used to be. I'm amazed and in awe of artists who can build a parallel universe that's so big and clearly defined that the mainstream finally has to pay attention.
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A lot of stuff you hear on the radio is like instant hooky pop, but I can't imagine it being covered in the future by other artists. It's really for themselves.
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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.
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People have created feuds between me and other artists.
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Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.
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Something to Look Forward To' pays homage to the talent, vision and persistence of particular black artists who have created dynamic abstract images and objects during extended and successful careers.
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Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.
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I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.
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Knowledge of music business gives us access to artists, talent and a unique approach to performing services for advertising. Not to mention the branding implications of unique music with original sense for linking an advertiser, its message and its target.
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A lot of people are promoting records that are just throw-it-agains t-the-wall-see- if-it-sticks meaningless bullshit. Everybody has the responsibility to do the right thing and promote artists that mean something.
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Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.
