Artist Quotes
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I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're postponing at best, your own development. The atmosphere of the workshop should be that of trying out one's own work and accepting the signals from others but not accepting the dictation of others because that is a violation of the spirit of art. Art can't be done by somebody else, it has got to be done by the artist.
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I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize in these matters: It is the individual artist that counts.
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Being an artist is being an isolated individual.
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During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
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You can be an artist without visual images, a reader without eyes, a mass of erudition with a bad elementary memory. In almost any subject your passion for the subject will save you. If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich; if you wish to be learned, you will be learned; if you wish to be good, you will be good. Only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them with exclusiveness, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly.
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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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To understand an artist is to be a genius.
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Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.
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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
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Be the artist you were born to be.
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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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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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Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
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I always wanted to show the world that art is everywhere, except it has to pass through a creative mind.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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If you're true to yourself, it doesn't matter where you record your music or where you say you're from. I am an artist from Texas, proud to be from Texas, but I play my own kind of music, my brand of country music.
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A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.
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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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The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
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The artist is always searching for the meaning of life, his own and that of mankind, searching for truth. A system of uncertainty has entered our daily life. The pressures of mechanization and uniformity to which it is subject call for protest and the artist has only one means of expressing this, by music.
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I think every artist subconsciously wants to evolve themselves. Sometimes they get stuck in ruts because of pop culture, peer pressure, stuff like that. But what excites me most is exploring my own musical insights and expanding upon them.
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I support the idea that artists have to make a stand. I'm with that - you're putting the discussion on the table and you're letting people know. You're being brave as an artist and responsible to the community.
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Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.
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An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only one shining example of that - Count Leo Tolstoy.
