Artist Quotes
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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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Chocolate and candy. That's what we brought in to our friends. We worked in East Berlin with other artists who were smuggled out to come work in the Western Bloc. It was extraordinary because people in East Berlin just wanted to know what was happening. Music. Fashion. The news. All of the things we get every day.
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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
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You can never not feel like that, as a working artist these days. It's funny - time off makes me nervous, but so does time on. At least the pressure wasn't coming from outside.
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Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.
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Times are tough in the music industry, and now more than ever we need people like the team at Paste looking out for artists on the fringe of the mainstream.
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Where beauty ends is where the artist begins
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This is the launch of the Doctor Strange film interpretation, of - in my view - a classic, which has been interpreted many times by other graphic artists and this is just our graphic interpretation of The Ancient One. I would say the whole approach is about a kind of fluidity.
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I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.
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Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful thing.
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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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I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.
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The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.
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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
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One of the most unattractive human traits, and so easy to fall into, is resentment at the sudden shared popularity of a previously private pleasure. Which of us hasn't been annoyed when a band, writer, artist or television series that had been a minority interest of ours has suddenly achieved mainstream popularity? When it was at a cult level we moaned at the philistinism of a world that didn't appreciate it, and now that they do appreciate it we're all resentful and dog-in-the-manger about it.
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As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your ass.
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I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
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The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
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Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.
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Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.
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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
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On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.
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It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.
