Artist Quotes
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Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.
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Aesthetics is for the artist like ornithology is for the birds.
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For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.
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The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
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The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.
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I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.
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Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman.
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What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what lens that will be through. A lot of my work has been about identity in different ways. Part of that for me falls into the question of gender identity certainly but also about what it means to be an American theater artist.
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Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist can come from anywhere.
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When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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Music is made by individuals. Some artists will be very politically overt in their songs, some will be more subtle. You have to be true to yourself, true to your nature.
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I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
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When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.
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No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!
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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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Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.
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Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.
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If hand-drawn animation is a dying craft, we can't do anything about it. Civilization moves on. Where are all the fresco painters now? Where are the landscape artists? What are they doing now? The world is changing. I have been very fortunate to be able to do the same job for 40 years. That's rare in any era.
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Beyonce's the only contemporary artist that I really, really idolize.
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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.
