Artist Quotes
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Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
Brice Marden
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
Herbie Hancock
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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.
Ezra Furman
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An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent.
Nancy Spero
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My father was a proctologist and my mother was an abstract artist, so that's how I view the world.
Sandra Bernhard
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The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.
Seth Godin
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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.
Willem de Kooning
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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.
Susanne Langer
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Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.
Paul Klee
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.
Norman Douglas
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I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.
Etta James
