Artist Quotes
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You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
William James
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It is not what an artist does that counts...but what he is.
Pablo Picasso
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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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When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.
Gavin Turk
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Claude Monet
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There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
Bono
U2
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If you're a struggling artist having money problems just superglue a brick in the middle of a blanket, and call it.
Nicole McKay
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You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame permanently aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs―the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limbs, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate―the little deadly demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.
Vladimir Nabokov
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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey
Bananarama
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We artists are hypersensitive, or we wouldn't be - couldn't be - artists.
R. O. Blechman
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
Saul Bellow
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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 don't understand the fashion industry and the appeal of it. I understand that there are some people who think it's important to them, and they're designers, they're artists, but there seems to be a disproportionate amount of our culture that's caught up in that and the red carpet stuff. It seems like there's a disproportionate amount of attention placed on that.
Jim Gaffigan
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You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
Jack White
The White Stripes
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An artist must forget painting when he paints. That's the only way he will do original work.
Pablo Picasso
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I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.
Gerald Stern
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In the created world around us we see the Eternal Artist, Eternal Love at work.
Evelyn Underhill
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I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700 years.
I. M. Pei
