Artist Quotes
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I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
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Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on stage in New York - not a brilliant career or I'd still be doing it - but I got enough work to keep my agent and my union health insurance.
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When you’re a certain artist and you do all this work, you leave the world with words, music, and art — but you leave your family with no daddy.
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I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
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The artist is living a secret that he has to make manifest.
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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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I want to use every second of my life, every time that I have in my life, to make me a better fighter. That's why I'm a martial artist. For me, it's more than a job - it's a way of living
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Art is constant tension and release. That is where artists live, between the two, or at times, submerged in either. The challenge is never ending perfection is impossible, it could always be different, better, or worse. It's not important, just process and striving to be like the man who walks the trapeze maintaining balance.
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The real truthfulness of all works of imagination, sculpture, painting, and written fiction, is so purely in the imagination, that the artist never seeks to represent positive truth, but the idealized image of a truth.
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The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
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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 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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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
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Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.
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I remember music first artists second.
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Art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.
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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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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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Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
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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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When I joined, I was one of the first artists to sign on to the Motown West label when they opened their first studio in California. At the studio, you'd run into Stevie Wonder, you'd run into Marvin Gaye…it was very special.
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The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.
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I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared 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.
