Artist Quotes
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The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
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The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
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I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
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You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
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I'm not sure I am a politician. I would say that I am still an artist, and I'm trying to use politics as an instrument for change.
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If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
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I really just want to continue to challenge myself. And I want to continue to grow as an artist. I never want to stop.
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It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second.
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The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
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You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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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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When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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I think nearly every artist continually wants to reach the edge of nothingness - the point where you can’t go any further.
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Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
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I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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Her album is very much what she wanted to say, and it's funny going through the process with her and knowing what these songs are about and watching her mature into what she is now an artist as opposed to an 'American Idol' winner, ... That was probably the most fun I've had on a session. She was so much fun and very laid-back, but very sincere.
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Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.
