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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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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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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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
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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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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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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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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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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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The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
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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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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
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I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.
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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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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
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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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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
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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 not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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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.'
