Artist Quotes
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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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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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The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius.
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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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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
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Every artist has a very particular sound and style.
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I'm a professional artist, that's how I make my living. So I watch the market. There is, it seems to me, a lot of pure financial speculation, and I don't think that's terribly healthy. Though as long as the money is getting back to the artist, I think that's good. I'm very happy younger artists can make money faster than we could. And we were making it faster than a generation before us.
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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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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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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 don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
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I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.
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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 the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.
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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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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 allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
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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'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.
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I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
