Artist Quotes
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The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
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Perhaps the importance that we must attach to the achievement of an artist or a group of artists may properly be measured by the answer to the following question: Have they so wrought that it will be impossible henceforth, for those who follow, ever again to act as if they had not existed?
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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.
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So when a music artist puts an album out that can only be streamed, not downloaded, what happens? In Kanye West's case, apparently it gets pirated a lot.
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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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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.
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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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It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.
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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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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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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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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."
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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 am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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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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I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'
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I will be an artist or nothing!
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I feel like emotional content is the most important of any song, for any artist.
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Why is joy not considered a fit subject for an artist?
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The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
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There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.
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By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
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The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
