Artist Quotes
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Banksy's a very selfish, driven, paranoid artist. For good reasons.
Ben Eine
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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.
Dolly Parton
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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History has proven that it's impossible to crush the artist. There's always gonna be a need for somebody to write a poem or sing a song about something, about life - that makes it real. There's the word that goes beyond the word.
Yasiin Bey
Black Star
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A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice.
Alexei Yagudin
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To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man.
Bernard Iddings Bell
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It's not curators, it's not critics, it's not the public, it's not collectors who find great artists - it's other artists.
David Galenson
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It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.
Gregory Walter Graffin
Bad Religion
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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…
Pat Barrett
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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Eric Maisel
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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.
Warren MacKenzie
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The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.
Abderrahmane Sissako
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That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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The real world with its common logic pushes us toward catastrophe. The artists seek in his work to free himself from this weight. Art is being transformed into politics, love into trade, education into an apparatus for stifling the mind. In the midst of such horrors, clearly only the dream within me has life. But how do other people live? -There is color, virginal expression - new, without a cage, without routine, without limit, a bath of sun and light. We must realize that nothing man does is of any value. The trouble is that people want to be paid. Only sick men can be artists. Their suffering pushes them into the accomplishment of deeds which reinvest the world with meaning. The sensitive man or the artist can only be a sick man in our civilized life, so full of lies. To think of art as a profession, how appealing! – Painting is man in the face of his downfall.
Bram van Velde
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For the theatre one needs long arms... an artiste with short arms can never make a fine gesture.
Sarah Bernhardt
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I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.
Nick Cave
The Birthday Party
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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.
Lawrence "Kris" Parker
Boogie Down Productions
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The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
L. Ron Hubbard
