Artist Quotes
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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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A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.
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Everyone praises Sachin Tendulkar. He may be a genius in his own right but in my book, Rahul Dravid is the artist. Dravid's defence tactics, his strokes, his cuts, his grace are truly amazing. I'd like to meet the chap sometime and take my hat off to him.
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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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I will be an artist or nothing!
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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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The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
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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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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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For me narcissism is not about money. For me, narcissism is something so romantic and something so human. Everybody is a narcissist. Some people admit it and some people don't. As an artist, it's important to be a narcissist. Look at Picasso, look at Warhol.... As an artist, you can get away with a lot of things that normal people cannot.
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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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One thing about Kurt Cobain is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.
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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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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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If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again.
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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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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.
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Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.
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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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Some artists are definitely trying to do different styles. Some, not a lot. But even from what you've seen [of] Outkast, Kanye West, and Lil' Wayne, and different people expressing their way of evolving in hip-hop. In the evolution of hip-hop, they're doing different things. And you've seen hip-hop have more of a global presence and impact on the world.
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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
