Artist Quotes
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Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you.
Nicki Minaj -
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.
Carl Andre
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I don't think an artist should keep themselves categorized in a specific box.
Sean Kingston -
To live as an artist requires hard work or some extraordinary good fortune to come your way.
William Boyd -
The artist must be like a heart surgeon. He must approach something with sympathy, but with a sort of coldness and work and work until he finds some kind of perfection in his work. You can't have blood splashing all over the place. Things must be done very cleanly.
Ernest Gaines -
When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an artist try and sell a song that isn't believable coming from them.
Kelly Clarkson -
It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.
Banksy -
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
Michelangelo
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If you're drawing a Western town, you can duplicate that Western town from instinct alone. Some artists may take it from other illustrations or duplicate what you've drawn, but it will never have that gut reality that's instinctive in the artist.
Jack Kirby -
I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.
Auguste Renoir -
There is a line from the Marina Tsvetaeva poem I'm so fond of: "In this most Christian of worlds/ All poets are Jews." What she means is that writers and artists are outside the normal flow of daily life, the normal flow of society in general.
Paul Auster -
What is not cool is if we have a problem with an artist or if an artist has a problem with us, come to us directly. Talk to us. Don't start a Twitter war and all that kind of stuff. That's silly.
Rozonda Thomas TLC -
Through my friend Tony Shafrazi, who's an art dealer and an artist himself - he helped to show Basquiat and Keith Haring, and has worked with the Francis Bacon estate - it was really through my friendship with Tony that I developed even more of an interest in art.
Owen Wilson
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I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
L. Ron Hubbard -
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
Annette Messager -
I think the real exciting part about becoming a solo artist is that you get to really decide on what your new sound and what your new message will be.
Stephanie Young Hwang -
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Ernest Hemingway -
Every artist creates with open eyes what she sees in her dream.
Marge Piercy
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I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.
Sarah Wayne Callies -
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.
Nicolas Berggruen -
I feel pretty good about the balance of being an artist and songwriter, now that I have my album in the works.
Wrabel -
Every artists wants to be applauded
Jean-Jacques Rousseau