Artist Quotes
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There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.
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I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.
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Create, artist, do not talk.
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.
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For a man it's like if something goes on on-stage you'll have a drink at the bar and talk about it. With a female artist it's a big deal, you have a meeting and she's mad at you for the next couple of shows!
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That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
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Art is an attitude toward life. If you aim your work and your life high, keep your scene harmonious, then you're an artist and your life is art.
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That is an artist as I would have an artist be, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art--panemet Circen.
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I always like helping young artists develop because I was a new artist myself.
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A person is not an artist in one compartment and a human being in another.
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All that I have to offer as an artist is the revelation of my soul
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l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.
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If they're (his clients) not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
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If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.
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Rules are what the artist breaks; the memorable never emerged from a formula.
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For the cynic, art is defined through money. That, of course, is a very sad statement. But an artist is someone who does creative things.
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An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
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It seems to me it's a painter's duty to try to put an idea into his work.
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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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Which are you?...competen t, inspiring, passionate, obsessed, provocative, impatient, hungry, driven, adoring, inspired, an artist, a genius, someone who cares...? With all these remarkable, powerful, important options available to each of us, why do so many of us default to competent?
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The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
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Today it's not strange to see an artist 30 years old having her first retrospective! Different time, different speed. After having been the key point of recognition for an artist, the museum today is just another place to experiment and work, like we can do in any art fair. The king or queen of the moment is completely ignored and replaced by the new one a few years later. Contemporary novelty in art disappears faster than the seasonable changes of the fashion designs.
