Artist Quotes
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Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.
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There was an Israeli artist who was in grad school with me. I remember trying to get to know him on a more personal level. He had moved to the Fairfax area, not realizing that it's a super Jewish part of L.A. He told me, I don't understand why American Jews feel this connection with me. I was embarrassed because I was feeling that connection with him, too!
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People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing.
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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
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I really believe that every character comes from the well of the artist.
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I think I'm like a young black 20 something artist who's trying to who's trying to like explore their identity through music and other things.
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Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
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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 live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.
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My music is all over the world and I am now feeling like a bona fide solo artist.
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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The adventure of composition is a mystery. The muse has her ways, she hides from you, comes for you in the middle of the night, at midday, at dawn. You must believe wholeheartedly in this divine power. Its an elusive gift that can appear at any time, anywhere. Artists are in awe of it.
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The artist should always be the student.
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Comfort is the enemy of the artist.
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Photography does not form a separate, barren field of art. It is only a means of execution, uniform, rapid and sure, which serves the artist by reproducing with mathematical precision the form and effect of objects and even that poetry which at once arises from any harmonious combination.
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As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
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I didn't do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.
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Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our books, thumbing through it and exclaiming, “Hey, listen to what this old guy had to say back in the twentieth century!
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When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye…it was very special.
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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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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
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I tell my friends about my conversations with my father - conversations with an artist.
