Artist Quotes
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As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.
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It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.
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Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.
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I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
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That’s part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you’re trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.
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The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.
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No muse shoots darts of insight into the unsuspecting artist.
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To be contemporary actually means to be an artist. [But] I do not feel contemporary in my work. I perceive my work as old-fashioned. It does not have a frame of actuality in our time or locality.
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An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.
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I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.
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The man who arrives at the doors of artistic creation with none of the madness of the Muses would be convinced that technical ability alone was enough to make an artist... what that man creates by means of reason will pale before the art of inspired beings.
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Conform, go crazy, or become an artist.
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Watercolors is the first and the last thing an artist does.
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There's definitely some sort of dissent brewing between record labels, publishing companies and artists about the compensation they get from streaming services Spotify is returning a HUGE amount of money to the record labels. If we continue growing at our current rate in terms of subscriptions and downloads, we'll overtake iTunes in terms of contributions to the recorded music business in under two years.
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I want to communicate. I do; every artist does. That's why you're an artist.
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I have always been an artist and have always been a creative person and have always thought outside the box and am always rooting for the underdog. To be on the opposite end in this particular storyline was interesting, but I definitely feel like I could draw from my experience.
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Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.
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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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Because the artist deals in future realities, he always seeks improvements or changes in the existing reality. This makes the artist, inevitably and invariably, a rebel against the status quo. The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
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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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I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.
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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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I was really naïve. I had no idea artists made money.
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
