Artist Quotes
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Carl Maria von Weber
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I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
Tom Stoppard
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I'm an artist; I'm not going to use trigonometry.
Taylor Momsen
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
Kara Walker
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All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.
Karl Pearson
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It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have.
Gary Barlow
Take That
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I don't think the label makes the artist or the artist makes the label. It's the music that makes everything work or not.
Garth Brooks
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I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?
Jason Aldean
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So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.
Santi White
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As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Art, although produced by man's hands, is something not created by hands alone, but something which wells up from a deeper source out of our soul.....My sympathies in the literary as well as in the artistic field are drawn most strongly to those artists in whom I see most the working of the soul.
Vincent Van Gogh
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman