Artist Quotes
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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 cannot sing Vampirella artist Patrick Berkenkotter's praises loudly or often enough.
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An artist has to train his responses more than other people do. He has to be as disciplined as a mathematician. Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom. It prepares an artist to choose his own limitations.
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Jay Z in many ways is a rock artist. In the sense that they've used hard rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock aesthetics and influences in their music. When you see Kanye West, he has a full band playing. Jay Z has a full band playing with Marshalls.
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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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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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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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Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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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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If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
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People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
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A lot of artists are such narcissists.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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It's weird to me when an artist comes in, and the label says, 'We want him to sound like Chris Brown,' but he says he wants to sound like Sean Paul. There's a huge disconnect – it's like we're making a product.
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I never decided at all to be an artist; being an artist seems to have happened to me.
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Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
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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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My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
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It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
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I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.
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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.
