Artist Quotes
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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 meet many people, I talk with them, like a TV show host. I show what's going on with Greenpeace, interesing political things, I have artists, musicians and bands.
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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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Prince led by example. As prolific as he was as an artist, he was just as courageous in the business.
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For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
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There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
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Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.
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In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.
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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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The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.
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Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.
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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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Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.
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We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.
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The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
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I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.
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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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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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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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My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.
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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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The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?
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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.
