Artist Quotes
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There are a lot of new artists that I really dig and I think they really understand what R&B and Soul music is about.
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There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.
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The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
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One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.
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The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.
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There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.
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Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.
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There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.
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Well the artists that inspire me were, first of all I would say Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, John Holt, Alton Ellis, Errol Dunkley, Delroy Wilson and Dennis Brown you know. They have unique voice and sweet melody and you know, good lyrics those time yeh. The music was very nice in that time still seen, because you find that even the musical part, the musicians concentrate more on the melody than everything, more than how they concentrate on the money that time you Know
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The artist is not a special kind of man, but every man is a special kind of artist.
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I think doing shows with other R&B artists like myself brings the attention to the crowd. You can't just do those one artist shows anymore. I don't like just me being on the show.
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If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
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Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.
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I really value the freedom I have as a Christian that's an artist but not necessarily a Christian artist. I think it can be hard to express certain things about faith when there are a pretty specific set of expectations around what you need to talk about and how you're talking about it.
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I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".
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Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.
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A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.
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Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
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We as artists cannot be politicians. We as artists can only be truth-tellers.
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Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.
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I just sit at the drawing board most of the time. I am used to talking to people. I love going to conventions, getting feedback and talking to people. Some artists don't. Some artists sit at their drawing board because their personality actually dictates that.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.
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I realized that was what was happening in my work already. I think that's where, as artists, we begin to master our craft: when we're able to step back and understand things.
