Artist Quotes
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Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.
Red Barber
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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.
Warryn Campbell
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Create, artist, do not talk.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I wish I was better at art. I love some of the great artists of the 19th century and, compared to them, I just feel I lack this technique that they had. They have so much skill.
Hayao Miyazaki
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I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.
Paul Auster
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Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.
Amanda Craig
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Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.
Peter O'Toole
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There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best.
Graham Coxon
Blur
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It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.
Steve Stoute
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The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.
Russell Hornsby
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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.
Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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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…
Nilo Cruz
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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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There's a great social component to being a writer, to being an artist.
Rebecca Makkai
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TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.
Cheyenne Kimball
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Look back on the utopian dreams of the previous century, or even the century before that, where people thought machines would ultimately give us a quality of life where our needs would be taken care of so we could all basically be artists together in the evening, after we had fished, hunted, raised cattle - or whatever it was Marx imagined for us.
Astra Taylor
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I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.
Audrey Flack
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So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.
William Faulkner
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
Richard Schickel
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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.
Sara Zarr
