Artist Quotes
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An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…
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On radio, you're an artist. On TV, you're a servant.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
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I love seeing original cartoons. You get to see the artist's corrections, like erasures or Wite-Out or patches, and you get to see the artist's line in better detail, and what kind of ink they use - whether they like a cold black or a warm black, and what kind of paper they like, how big or small they like to draw - art nerd stuff like that.
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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.
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I'm pretty hard to impress, and I'm pretty exacting, in terms of what I want from my props department and art department. We spend many, many hours going over visual research and finding the right artists to create the material.
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I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.
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Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
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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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Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
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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 want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
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Accepting awards when you run record companies and your whole career has been about promoting your team or promoting the artist or delivering hits or building careers, can be an odd one
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I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human. I think there are some artists whose works are misanthropic. When I see this kind of stuff, I think, they're smart, but I don't need art to tell me people are assholes. I can just go into the streets.
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
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And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.
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Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.
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I never quite dare to believe I'm brave enough to be an artist, but I'm on the side of artists. I think of myself as a bit of a Salieri, looking with longing eyes at Mozart.
