Artist Quotes
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Nowadays, an artist is someone who makes art mean the things he does.
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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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It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
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I thought I wanted to be a performing and recording artist, and played many recitals and performances beginning in the 1970s. In the 1980s I went to the British Library and ordered and received reels of historical women and men keyboard composers, and thus was born Vivace Press.
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Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.
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The artist has tremendous power to change the world.
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It’s a shame really because if a band or an artist doesn’t have a hit straight away the label will drop them and go and look for another act, so you don’t get bands developing in the same way as we did.
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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.
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If you're any good as an artist, you have to be doing something nobody else has interest in. Nobody would be interested in my work except a few crazy people.
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Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
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Trouble is said to be good for an artist's soul but almost never is.
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I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.
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For a producer, you want to be in L.A. You want to be close to the action, and in L.A. there are always singers, artists, songwriters, collaborators and other producers. It's easy to get access to all that, which gives you more opportunity to work records.
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I have the best fans. I know every artist says that but I really do. I love my fans for how much they know about me, how much they learn about me, and how much they really pay attention.
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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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I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you for what theyve already seen you do.
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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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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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Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
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The choices a writer makes within a tradition - preferring Milton to Moliere, caring for Barth over Barthelme - constitute some of the most personal information we can have about him.
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An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.
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My ultimate goal is to really be a huge music artist to the point where one day people forget that I was on a reality show.
