Artist Quotes
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I put priority on such artists who focus on the world of "oblivion" and who consider placing themselves into the world of "oblivion" as fundamental to their attitude for their expression.
Yasumasa Morimura
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It is surprising that people do not believe that there is imagination in science. It is a very interesting kind of imagination, unlike that of the artist. The great difficulty is in trying to imagine something that you have never seen, that is consistent in every detail with what has already been seen, and that is different from what has been thought of; furthermore, it must be definite and not a vague proposition. That is indeed difficult.
Richard Feynman
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It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good.
Pablo Picasso
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I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Every artists wants to be applauded
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.
David LaChapelle
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The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.
Nicolas Berggruen
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The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. Im on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.
Thomas Kinkade
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It's hard for me to say what would happen if I didn't go to art school. It wasn't that I learned any specific painting or drafting skills at school that I felt I couldn't have taught myself. However there is something quintessentially unique and important that you gain by immersing yourself in ascholastic and creative universe, and being held to certain academic standards while being surrounded by artists of varying disciplines.
John Baizley Baroness
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When I'm talking to an artist, I'm not being malicious when I tell them their music is wack. These are artists with mad money and fame so why should they care about my critique?
Charlamagne Tha God
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The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.
William McFee
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I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
Erykah Badu
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I always made stuff but never thought, I'm going to be an artist.
Mark Bradford
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I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.
Malcolm D. Lee
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If the function of the artist is to see, the first duty of the critic is to understand what the artist saw.
J. E. H. MacDonald
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I was more than just a moody artist.
Richard Lewis Springthorpe
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It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.
E. J. Hughes
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Typing in the name of a song and downloading the song you really have no connection with the artist at that point. So I think it is still important to have physical CDs and stuff like that.
Jason Aldean
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I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.
Vivienne Westwood
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I can get inspired just off the energy of Soulja Boy, just his energy, you have to take something from an artist. Everyone may not look at an artist the same way, but it's something that artist is doing that's creating his success.
Nelly
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As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.
Eric Maisel
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I just close my eyes and act like I'm a 3-year-old. I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then. So you just close your eyes and think back to when you were as young as you can remember and had the least barriers to your creativity.
Kanye West