Artist Quotes
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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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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
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Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.
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I look for roles that resonate with me these days. While I love putting out just fabulous entertainment, I think now as artists, especially with so much uncertainty going on in the world, you want to be a part of things that offer or promote healing in some way and perhaps a little introspection once you leave.
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I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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I have a lot of written material, and all of it's different. Some records that I have are country, some pop, some alternative rock. I just write what I feel, so I can't specifically say. I just want to be an artist of truth and an artist that stays true to herself.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.
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I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
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It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
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My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.
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I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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The artist must be a philosopher. Socrates the skilled sculptor, Jean-Jacques [Rousseau] the good musician, and the immortal Poussin, tracing on the canvas the sublime lessons of philosophy, are so many proofs that an artistic genius should have no other guide except the torch of reason.
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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'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.
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Not every artist is a role model.
