Artist Quotes
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I just wanna be a good artist.
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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'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
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It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
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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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I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
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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'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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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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Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the 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 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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Nowadays, you can be a fan of someone that's not an actor or artist. You can be a fan of someone that makes YouTube videos.
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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 embraced being a pop artist, but I like doing it on my own terms, at my own pace.
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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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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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No one should drive a hard bargain with an 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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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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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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My mom and I were super tight. I think she really wanted me to be an artist, you know? She used to like to tell people she wanted to be Beethoven's mother. That was her thing. She wanted to be the mother of this person.
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The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
