Artist Quotes
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and the rest of it.
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In the music business, especially the country music business, every 10 years or so you're going to have this changing of the guard, this wave of new artists that comes in.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.
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Street artists need to get back to actually doing things on the streets instead of in the galleries where they all seem to be ending up. I hope this term 'street artist' falls from the face of the earth, in my honest opinion.
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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My dream is to do exactly what I'm doing. I love writing and directing, and being somebody that can write about an artist I love or make a film about it. That's great. I would leave the other stuff to those who do it much better.
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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
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My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
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I take the palette with me, but I have a lot of makeup. I was a makeup artist when I was younger, but I'm not that good compared with my makeup artist, so I keep things pretty simple. I explore a lot with pink and nude lipsticks, but I love red lipsticks. I love a line and a lash and a brow. So I don't need a lot, but I have a lot. It's all there just in case - for Halloween or whatever.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
