Artist Quotes
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It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.
Bill Murray
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I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.
Andrew Levitas
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Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate.
Al Jourgensen
1000 Homo DJs
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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth.
Flannery O'Connor
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You learn really quickly how not only to be an artist, but you also become all of a sudden the CEO and owners of a company that you have to make major decisions about that I don't think we were fully prepared for in the beginning.
Jay DeMarcus
Rascal Flatts
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For me the journey of making a film is a journey of discovery as to what that film is. I mean what I do is what other artists do, painters, novelists, people that make music, poets, sculptors, you name it. It's about starting out and working with the material and discovering through making, working with the material the artifact.
Mike Leigh
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If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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I had my dysfunctions, but music gave me peace and joy. I never felt in tune with the world. My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. My art was my autonomy.
Meredith Brooks
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All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
Paul Klee
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In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.
Ernst Haas
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The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.
Allan Kaprow
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Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
C. S. Lewis
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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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Steven Siro Vai
Alcatrazz
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The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Saul Steinberg
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The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals.
David Galenson
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Artist, be brave! Go and make the most of what you do best!
Ana Tzarev
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I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world, and to show in a vision something of the face of Ireland to any of my own people who would look where I bid them. I have therefore written down accurately and candidly much that I have heard and seen, and, except by way of commentary, nothing that I have merely imagined.
William Butler Yeats
