Artist Quotes
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I'm a believer in the notion that artists who do good work believe in the ideas of extremes.
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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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If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
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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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In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife and kids; that makes me a better artist.
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In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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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 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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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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I'm confident in my team. I'm confident in my coaches. I'm confident in my ability. I worked really hard to become a better mixed martial artist.
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The work of one author or artist may stimulate another author or artist to push the edge, to take the risk, to go where the field hasn't gone before. The result -very exciting children's literature and art ... exciting both for the professional and for the intended audience, the children.
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An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
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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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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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I feel like every artist has a place in their mind, this place where they exist artistically. And I just want to take people to mine, and my place is called Loveland. In Loveland, there's no war, and there's peace.
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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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The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
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I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
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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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When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.
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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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I believe that every artist, in one way or another, is a wounded person. It's not natural to make art.
