Artist Quotes
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My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom imaginable, freedom from violence and lies, no matter what form the latter two take. Such is the program I would adhere to if I were a major artist.
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It took time to really build myself a reputation as a good live performer, a musician and an artist.
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I'm an artist by trade and an author by necessity.
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I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love them.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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I get paid all day, every day, which is almost too much for a sensitive artist.
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I cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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I like to tell the artist what the song or album means to me, in detail. Then I let the artist run with it and create in an unrestrained manner. Once the artist gets back to me with a few ideas, I like to do the little changes to make it perfectly speak to the audience.
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Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
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I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
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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 subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
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Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.
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I don't like to work in an office. I like to work in my house, to be among my own thoughts. The idea is for an editor to let his artist alone, let them be themselves, let them exchange their own ideas and you'll come up with something salable.
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I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.
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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 was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
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The artist is one who makes a concentrated statement about the world in which he lives and that statement tends to become impersonal-it tends to become universal and enduring because it comes out of something very particular.
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The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.
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There's a bunch of songs that I call B-sides on the record that you could argue could maybe have some potential commercial success with another artist, but for me, they just felt really whack.
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If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.
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There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
