Artist Quotes
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All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video.
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I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
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The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.
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An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.
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I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.
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What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
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I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.
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We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
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I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."
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The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
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I'm not an experimental artist. I have no talent for that. I need a certain kind of antecedent form to follow.
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So must the artist do in working at the nude.
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Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
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I've never been a die-hard fan, like a crazy fan for an artist.
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Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece.
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It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.
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But there's no way round it-commercial success is a mark of failure for a graffiti artist. We're not supposed to be embraced in that way. When you look at how society rewards so many of the wrong people, it's hard not to view financial reimbursement as a badge of self-serving mediocrity.
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Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.
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A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
