Artist Quotes
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The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.
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Art is real and imaginary, two worlds rolled into one - the fulfillment of the artist's insatiable soul.
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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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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.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.
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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
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Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
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I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.
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And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
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I just look at it as a real group activity when you are making movies. There are so many different artists doing so many different things, and they are all interconnected. So I like to see what everybody else is going to bring to the table before I make up my mind too much about anything.
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A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
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What an artist worries about as he plans his pictures, makes his sketches, or wonders whether he has completed his canvas, is something much more difficult to put into words. Perhaps he would say he worries about whether he has got it 'right'.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from them.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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 think whatever an artist does, it just has to be quality and good. I think the way Kanye's doing what he's doing with the Auto-Tune is actually creative because he just writes good melodies. He just writes good songs. He's just gifted.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.
