Artist Quotes
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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.
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As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
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Silence the artist and you have silenced the most articulate voice the people have.
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Artists who have produced experimental innovations have been motivated by aesthetic criteria: they have aimed at presenting visual perceptions. Their goals are imprecise, so their procedure is tentative and incremental.
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Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one of nature's means.
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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.
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The primary role of the music industry is to have artists be heard above the rest. It's a big needle in a haystack problem. The Internet has the service and tools to find the needle in a haystack.
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I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
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The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
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I don't know, it's very difficult if you're in a strange country to just barge in and say, "Hello, I'm Warren MacKenzie, and aren't you happy to have me as a guest," you know? But artists did accept us and we remained friends for many, many years, many of them as long as they lived; like Lucie Rie and Hans Coper were very good friends, and it was wonderful.
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It’s a liberating experience to think of God as an Artist. The joy He felt in creation. The care that was taken in the formation of the cosmos. The thoughtfulness and energy it would take to sculpt the mountains…
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We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.
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There's no map for being an artist.
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I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - God Loves, Man Kills, which is a brilliant story.
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The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.
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What’s any artist, but the dregs of his work?
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Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.
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As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child
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If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.
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In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.
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To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life
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An artist works through exposed wounds.
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The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention.
