Artist Quotes
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First of all, computer animation is certainly a tremendous and viable medium today. But the warmth and personality derived from 2-D animation, in my opinion, cannot be surpassed. Certain stories lend themselves well to 3-D animation and I won't labor this with naming them, but in my bones, I still respond more emotionally to the artists feel in 2-D. You feel the 'actor' in the animator more personally...it's hard to explain.
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The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.
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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 God! How terrible these money questions are for an artist!
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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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An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
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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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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.
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Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
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I want to make meaningful music always - I think every artist does. We want our words and melodies to mean something to people, even if it is just one person.
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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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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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Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.
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I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.
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When you’re a certain artist and you do all this work, you leave the world with words, music, and art — but you leave your family with no daddy.
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I'm just kind of really interested in athletes as artists of a pretty serious variety and people who devote themselves to what they do in a really incredible way.
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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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Im interested in the liberating aspect of being totally untethered, let loose in the worst possible environments. My favorite artists are always women that do things that are so wrong... I like things to be seven kinds of wrong. If they are seven kinds of wrong, sometimes the wrongs neutralize themselves, and the whole thing becomes.
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Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored.
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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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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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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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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.
