Artist Quotes
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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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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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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'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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On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.
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As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.
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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
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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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You never have to choose between being the pure artist or the craven, sellout entertainer. You can be both.
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... the image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art -- plastic, musical, poetic, balletic -- serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
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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.
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Every artist has a very particular sound and style.
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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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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 worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?
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You are both a work of art and an artist at work.
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There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.
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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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I feel sometimes an American artist must feel, like a baseball player or something - a member of a team writing American history.
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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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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
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I remember music first artists second.
