Artist Quotes
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Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
L. Ron Hubbard
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The artist knows how to sing, not how to count.
Alberto Aguilera Valadez
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do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation
Vladimir Nabokov
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True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
Oskar Kokoschka
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When I grow up I would like to be an artist in France.
Keith Haring
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I truly find such a sense of peace and calm when I'm working, and it's an inner peace that I've never been ever to achieve, doing anything else. It's where I feel most myself. I can access my power and strength, as an artist, and I can't imagine not doing it. I love it!
Dakota Fanning
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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.
Edwin Farnham Butler III
Arcade Fire
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In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.
Art Garfunkel
Simon & Garfunkel
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We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
Bill T. Jones
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I remember the excitement of being a new artist. When up and coming artists ask me like, "Any advice you have for me?" I always say, "Take it all in because you'll never be a new artist again".
Brooke Valentine
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It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.
E. A. Bucchianeri
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I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy.
Vincent Van Gogh
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I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
Barry Sternlicht
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I don't like to have too many makeup artists around, so I always like to do my own.
Diana Ross
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
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Recollect that to a woman who gets her living by her pen, 'time is money,' as it is to an artist. Therefore, encroaching on her time is lessening her income. And yet how often is this done (either heedlessly or selfishly) by persons professing to be her friends, and who are habitually in the practice of interrupting her in her writing hours.
Eliza Leslie
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Adolf Loos
