Artist Quotes
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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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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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As artists, we have an opportunity to help the public evolve, raise consciousness and awareness, teach, heal, enlighten and inspire in ways the democratic process may not be able to touch. So we keep it moving.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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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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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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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 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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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.
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Gucci Mane is my favorite artist.
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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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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an 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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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.
