Artist Quotes
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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 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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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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My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
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only an aching heart Conceives a changeless work of art.
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If I'm not putting out music, I'mma be producing for everybody. I got an artist named Mike Slice. He's nice, and he's real good. I'm doing a bunch of production for all the artists in the industry because I'm as much as a producer as I am 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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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 the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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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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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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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
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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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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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I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
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The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious...
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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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I think every artist wants to have that 'Grammy award winner' tag in front of their name.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
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Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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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.
