Artist Quotes
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I'm not really a big Springsteen guy. I'll listen to the music, but ... I didn't really get attached to it as much as, like, country artists. That's really who I listen to.
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Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
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I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.
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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
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There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.
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Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
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My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.
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I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
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More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
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I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.
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The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
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It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
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You want, as an artist, to be pushing yourself to do what you haven't done before.
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A good producer brings out the best in the artist he's working with. You shouldn't be able to listen to something and say, 'So-and-so produced this album.'
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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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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
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You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.
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I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
