Artist Quotes
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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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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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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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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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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
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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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I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
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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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Every artist has a very particular sound and style.
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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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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And exciting buildings are fine periodically.
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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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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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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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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
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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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The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
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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 think I didn't know what I was creating, as much as I knew what I didn't want to do. And I didn't want my mother's life. She was an unhappy, frustrated artist who always dreamed of a life that was never going to be hers.
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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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I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)
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Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings.
