Artist Quotes
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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
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Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
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What was the right level of prosperity, the level that banished dire need but did not satiate, the level that did not threaten the artist in the individual? And how did one stop when one arrived at 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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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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The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
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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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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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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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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
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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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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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The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.
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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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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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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
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Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.
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As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.
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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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It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change.
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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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Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.
