Artist Quotes
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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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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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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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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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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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For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
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Every artist's strictly illimitable country is himself. An artist who plays that country false has committed suicide; and even a good lawyer cannot kill the dead. But a human being who's true to himself - whoever himself may be - is immortal; and all the atomic bombs of all the antiartists in spacetime will never civilize immortality.
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It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare.
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Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
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Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.
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If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
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I've been told throughout my career that I have good instincts, and the idea of discovery and development in terms of a new artist is so exciting to me. Being only 25 and in a position where I might be able to grant opportunities is really cool.
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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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You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
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It is important for me, as a popular artist, to make clear to the governments of the United States and Mexico that despite the strategy of fear and intimidation to foreigners, despite their weapons, despite their immigration laws and military reserves, they will never be able to isolate the Zapatista communities from the people in the United States.
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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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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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Tattoo. What a loaded word it is, rife with associations to goons, goofs, bikers, tribal warriors, carnival artists, drunken sailors and floozies.
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I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
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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.
