Artist Quotes
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An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo. And an artist takes it personally.
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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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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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There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.
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Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.
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To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.
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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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I can only respond as an artist, because that’s what I am. I’m not going to become a politician all of a sudden. I am a politician in terms of the plays that I write, the way I embrace culture, the way I embrace characters that, in my particular case, have to do with the Latino world. And I embrace the Latino experience…
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I really believe that every character comes from the well of the artist.
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Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
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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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Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.
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As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
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Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
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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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I do my work. My work is my statement. Generally, I think, there is too much interest in what an artist has to say. Or what she or he looks like, instead of what she or he does.
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The artist must possess at least as much conviction as does his enemy, the dogmatic, mealy-mouthed, anti-art bigot.
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My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
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The concern of the artist is with the discrepancy between physical fact and psychological effect.
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Any artist who respects himself ought to be, and in every sense of the term, an emigre.
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To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
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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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My responsibility as scientist and journalist is to provide accurate information. My desire as artist is to make the images beautiful.
