Artist Quotes
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
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Just cause you are a failure does not mean you are an artist.
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There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.
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I'd love to be an artist that's multifaceted. At the moment, I am not. But wouldn't that be cool if I was like, 'Yeah, let me pull out my guitar and play you a song.' I would adore that. I am so far not gifted in that way. But I am a very hard worker and a very determined person, so who knows?
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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
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As a photographer, knowing what an artist is going to do at a certain point in a song, you can prepare for it and get that crazy Kanye “lean forward arm back and to the sky” signature move.
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All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.
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The most important thing to do as an artist is to get out of your comfort zone and work with different people: people who can't read a note of music, people who have incredible classical skills, blues and jazz musicians, pop artists, visual artists, dancers and actors. Learn from people who are creative in a different way to you and you'll keep evolving.
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The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
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TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.
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My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
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Where beauty ends is where the artist begins
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I think now it's the money who tells the artist what to do - it's not the artist who tells the money what to do. And things move very fast, which is hard, because sometimes you need more time to be creative. I guess no one has a loud mouth like I did. They don't dare to scream loudly what they think. But you can't take fashion too seriously. The whole thing is about giving the woman who wears your clothes some power, some fun, some service. It's great to make it as art. But first, it's a service for someone.
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Your greatest creation is your creative life. It's all in your hands. Rejection can't take it away; reviews can't take it away. The life you create for yourself as an artist, may be the only thing that's really yours. Create a life you can center yourself in calmly as you wait for your work to grow.
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Comfort is the enemy of the artist.
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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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.
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The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
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No purer artist exists or has ever existed than a child freed to imagine.
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
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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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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
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God is just another artist, like me.
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The great artist is the simplifier.
