Artist Quotes
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I had seen "Force Majeure" and I just love that movie so much. And I really wanted to artistically give a little hello to the filmmakers, and that kind of back and forth dialogue between artists that say, "I loved your movie. I was influenced by your movie. If I didn't have this job, I wouldn't be thinking of that. Do my TV show and then one day I'll make a movie where I can play with some of the visual themes in "Force Majeure."
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The artists could be dead, but some of them are not so distant from us, and make us feel as if they are alive with us. Such artists are worth calling "contemporary artists".
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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.
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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.
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I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.
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I'm a pop artist, and that's what I'll always be. I don't want to be a 'credible artist.'
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A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others.
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I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
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The streets and the industry are two different things. You could be one super-hot artist in the streets, and you could walk into a corporate building, and people would be like, "Who are you?"
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It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
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My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.
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I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
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I think people always have - not just journalists who help their careers, I think all people struggle with this idea that a female pop artist can write all her songs. Even I do it sometimes, you see a really good female pop artist and you're like, 'I wonder if she writes her songs.' That's never really my first initial reaction to a male popstar.
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I think when people watch a lot of artists, they're expecting this showiness, and I'm cracking jokes with people. I'm heckling back. I'm interacting.
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I'd like to think I'm a versatile artist without straying too far from who I am.
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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.
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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.
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There is no release In a bodkin or disease, Nor can there be a work so great As that which cleans man's dirty slate.
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You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
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If you don't enjoy making work, then it's bad. It's rough. Artwork is brutal for so many people. They let it happen to them, but it's brutal. I like the idea of an artist as somebody who works. A lot of the artists I like share this understanding.
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I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.
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Work always gives me an opportunity to grow as an artist and a person.
