Artist Quotes
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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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Drew Friedman isn't just a brilliant artist. He takes you to a place. He takes you back in time. He makes you smell the stale cigarettes and cold brisket and you say, thank you for the pleasure.
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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
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A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.
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Not all writers are artists. But all of us like the idea of somebody in the year 2283 blowing the dust off one of our books, thumbing through it and exclaiming, “Hey, listen to what this old guy had to say back in the twentieth century!
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I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.
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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!
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I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.
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It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.
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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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I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing.
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The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
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The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
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My music is all over the world and I am now feeling like a bona fide solo artist.
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Any artist who really engages with the problems in their medium at that moment and tries to deepen the problems is likely to discover new problems, new possibilities that will excite audiences and continue to excite them.
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The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
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I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
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I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun. You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.
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Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.
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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.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."
