Artist Quotes
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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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I'm 45 years old. I used to be a club girl, but that's not my world anymore. That doesn't mean I can't make music that excites. I think it's inspiring to see an artist you grew up with take another crack.
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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
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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.
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You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as 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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There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back
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This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.
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When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
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As an artist or musician, you want to be remembered for the music you make.
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There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.
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It is not from choice that my life is music and nothing more, but when one is an artist what else can he be? When a whole lifetime is too short to attain the heights he wants to reach, how then can he devote any of the little time he has to things outside of his art?
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It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this
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I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
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Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.
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I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
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If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
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I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.
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People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.
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I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don't wanna be within a genre.
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
