Artist Quotes
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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
Eric Maisel -
It's very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you're going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one's going to enjoy.
Steve Reich
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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.
William Blake -
Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.
Brian Joseph Burton Broken Bells -
When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.
Naturi Naughton 3LW -
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.
William S. Burroughs -
As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
Jack White The White Stripes -
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.
Sarah Gadon -
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
Erykah Badu -
For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
Vladimir Kramnik -
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
Erykah Badu -
Artists are nearest God. Into their souls he breathes his life, and from their hands it comes in fair, articulate forms to bless the world.
J. G. Holland
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The idea that musicians/artists have a responsibility to be community leaders or "role models" is problematic to me because I really believe that some of the most exciting art is not community-minded at least in any obvious or direct way, which is not to say that it is not ethical or consciousness-changing.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
I've never been known as a riff kind of artist.
Joe Bonamassa Black Country Communion -
Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.
Eric Maisel -
The first part of my career was indeed as a performer and recording artist, and I am still keenly involved with both. While rummaging around in the British Library, I found many delightful and interesting compositions by 18th-century men and women composers.
Barbara Harbach -
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
Bono U2 -
Alexander Trocchi was an existentialist. He was looking at an alienated artist in the post-war period. It's modern because it applies now as well.
Tilda Swinton
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Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
Simon Callow -
There are all very different directors. Some are more specific, some are calmer than others when the pressure is on, some use more colorful language and they all communicate differently. But they all have love and care in common. They are all artists. And they have voices that I believe shine through within their films. To add to that, as a director myself I have learned so much from all three. I would like to thank them for that.
E. J. Bonilla -
It is very bad for (an artist) to talk about how he (creates). It is not the (artist's) province to explain or to run guided tours through the more difficult country of his work. It's none of their business that you had to learn. Let them think you were born that way.
Ernest Hemingway -
The work of artists is to find what's humanly possible - possibility's furthest reaches.
Tony Kushner