Artist Quotes
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Frank Sinatra was an incredible artist, the best at what he did, but it never occurred to me to model my career after what he did. There was no one I modeled my career after because there was no one else who did what I did.
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At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.
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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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I always like helping young artists develop because I was a new artist myself.
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I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.
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Frost is the greatest artist in our clime - he paints in nature and describes in rime.
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Here's the thing, trust changes everything. Once you know what an artist can do, and you know their commitment level, it opens up the playbook hugely. I have worked with artists I really love, but they may have some small aspect that they hate drawing, or that they don't excel at, and that effectively takes that option off the table.
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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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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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Create, artist, do not talk.
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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 believe artists are too focused on the younger crowd. Why would you want to focus on them? Let them do what they do. You continue to do what you do.
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I've gone to big stadium rock concerts at some artist's invitation, and there's this invariable, fascinating and rather sad situation of concentric circles of availability. There are Green Rooms within Green Rooms literally within Green Rooms. There are seven or eight degrees of exclusivity, and within each circle of exclusivity, everyone is so happy to be there, and they don't know that the next level exists.
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My fans like to be romantic. I feel like I'm creating at least at the same level or even a higher level of creativity than I was at twenty-one. I've gotten better as an artist.
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The first time I sang with David Daniels... I had never performed with a countertenor before. That first time was magic, it was so beautiful. And he's such a great artist.
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
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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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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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I'll be honest with you, as an independent artist … the devil is everywhere with contracts and pieces of paper and pens for you to sign with don’t know if a TV show is right for everyone.
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I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
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The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.
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When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.
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Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.
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I remember the first time I was booked into a jazz club. I was scared to death. I'm not a jazz artist. So I got to the club and spotted this big poster saying, 'Richie Havens, folk jazz artist.' Then I'd go to a rock club and I'm billed as a 'folk rock performer' and in the blues clubs I'd be a 'folk blues entertainer.'
