Artist Quotes
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Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.
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A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.
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The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.
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An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
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I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.
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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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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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Whitney Houston is my idol and my mentor and my dream forever, like she will always be my favorite artist, ever, on the planet. Like I don't think I'll ever feel that way about another artist.
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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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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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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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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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I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.
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At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
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When the artist activates his being, awakens to his surroundings, and sets himself the task of creating, connections are made out of conscious awareness that return coalesced as inspiration.
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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
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I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have any idea if anyone actually reads it or pays any attention.
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Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
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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'm trying to be an activist, and I think of that as separate from my work as an artist. But it isn't.
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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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The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.
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The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
