Artist Quotes
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An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
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It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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 and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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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'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
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I think the legacy I'll leave on music is just an artist that went out here and gave 100%.
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I became a successful trap artist and we killed it in the music scene with my brothers, and guess what? It ended up really happening.
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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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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.
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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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I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.
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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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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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The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
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Dancers have always been a kind of background image, we've always danced behind an artist or we've danced in a movie behind the actors. We've always been very secondary.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
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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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I have 12 paintings of Kaufman art. He is an amazing artist.
