Artist Quotes
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
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If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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There wasn't really a song or artist that made me want to be a singer, I think I was always a fan of country music.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
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I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
