Artist Quotes
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There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
Rebecca Makkai
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I'm not sure that an art career would have any benefit for me; I'm not sure it's what I want. I don't think I want to be a designer-rock artist.
David Bowie
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As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
Paul Emsley
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Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.
Edward J. Fraughton
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From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.
Paul Klee
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What's interesting for me as an artist is when I'm able to take a cover and put my own twist on it. Sing it in my voice. Playing a cover doesn’t necessarily mean doing the song exactly the way it was originally recorded. If I do a cover, I always want to make it my own somehow.
Jesse Kramer
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One thing about Kurt Cobain is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.
Brett Morgen
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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.
David Bowie
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The artist is a god, but he is also an idiot. That is the human way.
Eric Maisel
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Accepting awards when you run record companies and your whole career has been about promoting your team or promoting the artist or delivering hits or building careers, can be an odd one
Max Lousada
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In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.
Melissa Etheridge
