Artist Quotes
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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We're here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We're creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We're rewriting the history of human thought with what we're doing.
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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 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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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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Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
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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 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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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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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'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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If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
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Becoming a professional artist takes talent and perseverance, even more so when the field is photography.
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.
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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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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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It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy.
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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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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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In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
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The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
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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 like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
