Artist Quotes
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The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind.
Okakura Kakuzo -
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.
Sonu Nigam
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The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.
David Alfaro Siqueiros -
Especially as an artist, the creative freedom we have makes us who we are. We're human beings-we're gonna mess up sometimes. I definitely feel like people should continue being who they are. As long as you're staying true to who you are, that's super important.
Saweetie -
We have to support our local artists. It's just that simple. Otherwise, we will have no art.
Allen David "Al" Jourgensen -
Art does not have to be dull, to be effective; the artist does not have to be a bore, to be real.
Burton Raffel -
The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
Pablo Picasso -
I love a lot of the young, new artists who are coming up, including Adele. I suppose anybody would freak out to work with her. To be able to play a saxophone solo on one of her songs would be the most ultimate thing ever.
Dave Koz
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You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
Tony Kushner -
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I want to experiment with new techniques and become a "traditional baroque artist."
Camille Henrot -
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.
David Bowie -
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Oscar Wilde -
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.
Daniel Dewan Sewell -
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
Alfred Sisley -
I never considered myself an Americana artist, but I'm a huge fan of old-time music from the States, the recordings that were made in the '20s and '30s. Trying to chase down the exact stylistic trappings of that stuff always felt like a dead end. That spirit of directness and economy, but also the poetic pungency of the writing and almost ugly, or raw, performance - all that seemed like the real message. I've just tried to somehow stay true to that feeling.
Will Sheff Okkervil River -
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
Vincent Van Gogh -
Sometimes as an artist when things come easy to you, you look for other avenues that are more challenging to you and you try to walk those lanes.
Nelly -
My clothes are very popular in Japan.
Vivienne Westwood
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I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.
Brooke Fraser Hillsong Worship -
It's really hard to find materials. Also, prices of metal have gone completely through the roof, insanely expensive. And if you go to a dictionary and look up starving artist, you'll see my picture.
Z'EV -
I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.
Margaret Anderson -
Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.
Edgar Alwin Payne