Artist Quotes
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I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
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Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
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At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'
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Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.
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I am really the most controversial artist in the world.
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I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.
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I am no artist - please come and help me.
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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.
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It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul than the victory of the subtle forces of reason over crude material strength! Probably everyone has his own reason for liking the King`s Gambit, but my love for it can be seen in precisely those terms.
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As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.
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My mother's an artist. My father was an artist and so I assumed that was normal growing up in art and the art world and spending our time around the world seeing art, experiencing things. It was great.
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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'm an artist and I get very attached to my own little ditties.
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Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
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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.
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The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes
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The artist's task is to become a successful eccentric, a strange but wise duck able to venture out of solitary confinement and mingle among society.
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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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As an actor, you hope to find roles that are challenging to you as an artist. Then if you are truly blessed, you will find that it also carries a message that you can impart to your audience.
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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.
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My father used to say, 'If you want to know the artist, look at the art'. He was usually talking about Stanley Matthews or Don Bradman when he said it.
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The digital world has allowed me a connection with my reader that I'd never had before. I didn't meet the people who read my material. The fan letters were mostly answered by professional people that'd done them for a living. And I didn't have any daily connection with their response to my work. I didn't have a relationship with my audience. And every artist should have it.
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The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.
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Just black executives have a bias against older artists. We don't respect our elders. That's not because of white people. That's because of black leadership. We just have that problem, and it's something that I am going to spend the rest of my life trying to conquer.
