Artist Quotes
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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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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Now one thing I think is really lame, is if you're an artist and you go to a karaoke bar and sing your own song. I like to get up there and sing stuff that I would never sing on stage anywhere else. Like Neil Diamond.
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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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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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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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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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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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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'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
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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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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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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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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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Every artist will one day face the moment when he or she is doing what he or she does after the style has passed and the art-world heat-seeking machine has moved on.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
