Artist Quotes
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We're all trying to be artists making our own unique statements. I think the only real way to do that is through failure.
Ryan Guzman -
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.
Steve Earle
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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Paul Klee -
It's very important that an artist's job is to be a great artist.
Steve Stoute -
My music is all over the world and I am now feeling like a bona fide solo artist.
Matt Goss -
Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.
Tommy Chong -
I am a great artist and I know it. It's because of what I am that I have endured so much suffering, so as to pursue my vocation, otherwise I would consider myself a rogue - which is what many people think I am, for that matter.
Paul Gauguin -
Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much.
Dolly Parton
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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.
Debra Dean -
For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.
Whoopi Goldberg -
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
Paul Gauguin -
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art.
Albert Camus -
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
Terry Gross -
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
Gautama Buddha
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I'm really happy that people are starting to hear my band, and we are so happy to be conduits for all this other happiness, and this emotional response. So, I can't be like, "that doesn't matter to me, I'm an artist, I exist apart from that!" But on the other hand, if you buy into that too much, you're setting yourself up... if I start thinking, "well, people at the show really liked one song, maybe I should write more songs like that," then I'm in trouble.
Carey Mercer -
The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.
Robert Wilson -
The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?
Terence McKenna -
I think “The Book of Mormon” has made that difference in its field. It changed the game. It’s something that 20 years from now people will still be talking about, hopefully. That’s my goal as an artist, as a creator, as a work for hire, is to choose projects that make people think, make people talk, and make people interested in having a dialogue.
Josh Gad -
As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
Tom Cruise -
The artist who gives up an hour of work for an hour of conversation with a friend knows that he is sacrificing a reality for something that does not exist (our friends being friends only in the light of an agreeable folly which travels with us through life and to which we readily accommodate ourselves, but which at the bottom of our hearts we know to be no more reasonable than the delusion of the man who talks to the furniture because he believes that it is alive.).
Marcel Proust
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Work can take on a new dimension if you know something about the artist.
Terry Gross -
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
Wole Soyinka -
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
Ezra Pound -
The artist dreams of works of real breadth; but, limited by his personality and the nature of his medium, limited by inner disturbances and loss of purpose, he often works more narrowly than he'd intended.
Eric Maisel