Artist Quotes
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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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As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
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Every artist I suppose has a sense of what they think has been the importance of their work. But to ask them to define it is not really a fair question. My real answer would be, the answer is on the wall.
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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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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 Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
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I do know that there is a difference between artists who are career-driven and artists who have a calling and are just compelled to make music, compelled to perform live, and the business isn't the reason they're doing it. In fact, there isn't really a reason. You just do it.
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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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All I tell artists is, 'Do what you love. Never let anybody talk you into changing what your musical idea is just to try to get a hit, because you're chasing your tail that way. It's not going to happen, and if you're successful, you have to do it the rest of your life. Stay true to it and do it for the sake of the art.'
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Hema ji is a dedicated artist and a perfectionist who continues to rehearse on her lines till she gets them right.
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I think for an artist there are so many things to make pictures of now, that everyone else may be suffering, but at least artists will just be stimulated by it all.
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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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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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The artist should have as little desire to rule as to serve. He can only create, do nothing but create, and so help the state only by … exalting politicians and economists into artists.
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The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.
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A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
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Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.
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Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.
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I have always wanted to do an acoustic record from the very beginning of my career. I was a coffeeshop artist where everything I did was acoustic.
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The Magician makes the visible, invisible. The Scientist makes the invisible, visible. The Artist stands in between, indivisible.
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My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
