Artist Quotes
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I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
David Bowie
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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Joseph Conrad
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As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.
Tony Yayo
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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
Albert Camus
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It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative!
Denny Dent
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The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
Pablo Picasso
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The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
Eric Maisel
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Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
Steven Levy
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There have been a lot of hip-hop artists who have made a difference to people's lives, spreading the message of the struggle and representing for those who have overcome adversity.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
Ezra Pound
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For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries.
Audrey Flack
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That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.
Ella Leya
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I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
Norman Granz
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Give shape, artist! don't talk! Your poem be but a breath.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist
King George V
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I'm really an artist of feeling. I like creating things when it feels right.
Will Ferrell
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Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
Albert Camus
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I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us.
Brice Marden
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Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
Paul Auster
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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
William Blake
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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Georges Seurat
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As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.
David Hammons
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To anyone who's trying to be an artist, in any medium, it's a very odd and lonely and nerve-wracking and scary process when you let anybody see what you're working on. You have to learn to listen to your instincts. Absorb other people's advice, opinions, or whatever it may be from the outside world, but at the end of the day, you have to be true to whatever it is that you're trying to say in that work.
Brian Henson
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In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
Eugene Delacroix