Artist Quotes
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The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
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I feel that this is my artistic home, and I'm very happy to be a California artist together with many others who are not from here originally but who decided to make this the center of their activities. There's something about that that I find very inspiring and satisfying.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I am powerless against the great magazines - I am an artist, and I will always be that.
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When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise.
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I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.
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I made it easier for many artists to play in certain areas.
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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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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.
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The man who tells the tale if he has a tale worth telling will know exactly what he is about and this business of the artist as a sort of starry-eyed inspired creature, dancing along, with his feet two or three feet above the surface of the earth, not really knowing what sort of prints he's leaving behind him, is nothing like the truth.
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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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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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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
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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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My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
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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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By artist I mean of course everyone who has tried to create something which was not here before him, with no other tools and material than the uncommer-ciable ones of the human spirit.
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Be an artist. Don't say it, do it.
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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'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.
