Artist Quotes
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I know of no American who starts from a higher level of aspiration than the journalist. . . . He plans to be both an artist and a moralist -- a master of lovely words and merchant of sound ideas. He ends, commonly, as the most depressing jackass of his community -- that is, if his career goes on to what is called a success.
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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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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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Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.
Nanna Øland Fabricius -
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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I embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
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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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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
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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 can draw really well. And I like to paint. I'm a bit of an artist.
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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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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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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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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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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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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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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'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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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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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
