Artist Quotes
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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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In an artist's life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.
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Despite the variety of my explorations, throughout it all it has been my contention that my responsibility as an artist is to work, to sing for my supper, to make art, beautiful and powerful, that adds and reveals; to beautify the mess of a messy world, to heal the sick and feed the helpless; to shout bravely from the roof-tops and storm barricaded doors and voice the specifics of our historic moment.
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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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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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Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.
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What constitutes American painting?... things may be in America, but it's what is in the artist that counts. What do we call 'American' outside of painting? Inventiveness, restlessness, speed, change...
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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 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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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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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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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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Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.
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When it comes to our makeup artist asking me, 'So, what do you want today?' I'm like, 'I don't know.' I have no idea what I want that day, or I just go with what I feel.
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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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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.
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
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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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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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I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
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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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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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An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
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An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
