Artist Quotes
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I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
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I just wanna be a good artist.
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I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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It is obvious, that theory alone, can never make a good artist; and it is equally obvious, that practice unaided by theory, can never correct errors, but must establish them.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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I can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
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I wish I could balance life as an artist and a mother, but sometimes when I am doing live concerts, I have to ask people to help me in my other role.
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Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
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It might crush a lot of people, but I've never been in the room with an artist that I've written a song for.
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
