Artist Quotes
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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 have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.
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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 artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.
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The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
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The trick is to paint a picture that doesn't exist, and yet that fits perfectly into an artist's body of work.
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The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
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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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The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
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Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
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That’s the power you possess as an artist. To find and express your own unique message.
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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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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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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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I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That's why I'm a martial artist. For me, it's more than a job - it's a way of living
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When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye…it was very special.
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I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
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You don't make art after you become an artist. You become an artist by ceaselessly making art.
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My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.
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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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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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The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
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All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.
