Artist Quotes
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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It's not a choice. Either I write or I don't, especially when I'm in a foreign culture. I've lived in London for years, and I must continue my writing and filmmaking. The most important thing for an artist or an author is to continue her work. Languages and settings are the tools but not the first thing.
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Certainly there is, for the American Negro artist who can escape the restrictions the more advanced among his own group would put upon him, a great field of unused material ready for his art.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
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'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.
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Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
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I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?
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As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
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Not every artist is a role model.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
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Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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If any artist abuses his audience as a means to any end, noble or ignoble, he better have a damn good reason for it.
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Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
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As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.
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You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
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I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.
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Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.
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When a young artist asks me a question, I want to do what I can to give them an answer if I have it within me. I know what I know. I won't make up stuff. But if it's something I've been through, I'll share my experiences and tell them the truth.
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I'm not an artist. An artist makes an object. Me, it's not an object, I work in history, I'm a storyteller.
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In the mind of every artist there is a masterpiece
