Artist Quotes
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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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The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
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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 true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
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Children, like animals use all their senses to discover the world. Then artists come along and discover it the same way...Or now and then we'll hear from an artisit who's never lost it.
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Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
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Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
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As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.
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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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I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.
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I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.
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I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity.
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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 started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.
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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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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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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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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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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
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An artist always know everything he does, you know what I'm saying, all the record he starts and don't end up in the public and just sit on the harddrive.
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Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
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Let me see: art and activism. I can always fall back on, "the question should be, what isn't political? Everything you do is political, even if it's abstract. You're making a political statement even if it's unwittingly." I think so much of art is unconscious anyway, the artist doesn't know the real reason they're doing it. They're just kind of going along with it intuitively.
