Artist Quotes
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One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.
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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
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I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
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My responsibility as scientist and journalist is to provide accurate information. My desire as artist is to make the images beautiful.
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I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist
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David Cronenberg knows what we actors do as artists.
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I was so absolutely riveted, I felt I was looking into the eyes of the artist. Art just closed the gap of time and space. The 16th century became as real to me as the 20th. It was something magical.
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I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be a film actor with no experience whatsoever if you've got a good director.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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Playwright August Wilson said, "To live it life as an artist is to be willing to face the deepest parts of yourself. To wrestle with your demons until your spirit becomes larger and larger and your demons smaller and smaller.
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Let's talk about the Gas Company because this is my favorite job.
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It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.
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It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.
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I believe that the artist's feelings are in some way generative. And I suspect that much of the artist's most productive emotion - not all of it but much of it - is felt in the course of playing around with form.
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I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
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I've done my time in being broke in Indonesia. Eating Goat soup. Australia's a developed country, you've got a lot of taxes, rents are high and its quite difficult to survive as an artist especially when you are just coming up.
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Pointed criticism, if accurate, often gives the artist an inner sense of relief. The criticism that damages is that which disparages, dismisses, ridicules, or condemns.
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I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist.
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There's a lot that goes into training, singers to eventually become performers. There's, projection, uh, which in many cases the artist was never concerned about.
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Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
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I have to be able to be the artist that I am.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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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The piteous demand that the artist should be shut up in a flower-garden, and forbidden to peep through the hedge into the world.
