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Embrace the beauty of simplicity and watch how it enriches your life.
Author:
Sophia Chen
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I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
Author:
Emile Zola
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I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
Author:
Jay Z
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Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.
Author:
Kip Winger
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I'm an artist, I'm not an academic folklorist.
Author:
Terri Windling
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Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
Author:
Terri Windling
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I'm always looking for ways to develop as an artist, especially as a jazz artist-to find different ways of testing my voice.
Author:
Cassandra Wilson
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A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
Author:
Roy Williams
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You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.
Author:
Pharrell Williams
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.
Author:
Bryan White
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An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
Author:
James Whistler
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David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
Author:
Tina Weymouth
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Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
Author:
Paul Westerberg
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
Author:
H. Wells
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Author:
Orson Welles
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The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
Author:
Cynthia Weil
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
Author:
Carl Weber
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Author:
Charles Warner
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As no man is born an artist, so no man is born an angler.
Author:
Izaak Walton
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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
Author:
David Wallace
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Hubris itself will not let you be an artist.
Author:
Larry Wall
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
Author:
Agnes Varda
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The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
Author:
Obie Trice
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I only really started to go to plays and to be interested in drama 20 years ago when as an artist I was already well-rounded. I think I'm more disciplined today.
Author:
Pete Townshend
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I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
Author:
Mel Torme
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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
Author:
James Thurber
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
Author:
Dylan Thomas
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I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!
Author:
Andy Taylor
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I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
Author:
Henry Tanner
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Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.
Author:
Taylor Swift
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I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect.
Author:
Ruben Studdard
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I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Author:
Barbra Streisand
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Author:
Igor Stravinsky
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Author:
Paul Strand
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As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.
Author:
Angie Stone
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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Author:
Alfred Stieglitz
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The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Author:
Saul Steinberg
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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
Author:
John Steinbeck
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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Author:
Edward Steichen
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I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Author:
Ralph Steadman
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A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.
Author:
Robert Stack
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I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.
Author:
Britney Spears
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Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
Author:
Patti Smith
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An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Author:
Patti Smith
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Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
Author:
Patti Smith
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I've always been a fine artist.
Author:
Joey Skaggs
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Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
Author:
Alfred Sisley
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I wasn't allowed to grow as an artist. My albums were nicer to look at than to listen to.
Author:
Nancy Sinatra
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Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.
Author:
Paul Simon
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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.
Author:
Dimitri Shostakovich
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I am just an artist.
Author:
Andres Serrano
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An artist is nothing without his or her obsessions, and I have mine.
Author:
Andres Serrano
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I am an artist first and a photographer second.
Author:
Andres Serrano
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My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.
Author:
Jon Secada
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My name is Kurt Schwitters... I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.
Author:
Kurt Schwitters
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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
Author:
James Schuyler
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Is an artist much more than a beggar?
Author:
Clara Schumann
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I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.
Author:
Gerald Scarfe
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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
Author:
J. Salinger
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
Author:
J. Salinger
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Once an artist explores the vast variety of tools and features available on the great programs, we're hooked.
Author:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
Author:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.
Author:
Todd Rundgren
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So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.
Author:
Todd Rundgren
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Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.
Author:
Helena Rubinstein
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I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
Author:
Kelly Rowland
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The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
Author:
Georges Rouault
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As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
Author:
Gavin Rossdale
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Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
Author:
Ned Rorem
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Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
Author:
Ned Rorem
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Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day.
Author:
Smokey Robinson
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Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist.
Author:
Smokey Robinson
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As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
Author:
Bridget Riley
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Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.
Author:
Denise Richards
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If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
Author:
Buddy Rich
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I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.
Author:
Lou Reed
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I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
Author:
Lou Reed
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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing.
Author:
Herbert Read
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I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else.
Author:
Robert Rauschenberg
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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
Author:
Charley Pride
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When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
Author:
Charley Pride
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Author:
Jackson Pollock
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.
Author:
Pablo Picasso
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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.
Author:
Alan Parsons
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I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
Author:
Ida Outhwaite
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
Author:
Pat Oliphant
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An artist is his own fault.
Author:
John O'Hara
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The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
Author:
Carroll O'Connor
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I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
Author:
Laura Nyro
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Pollock was well known, certainly, but for all the wrong reasons. He was known as much for being wild and unconventional in his working methods as for being a great artist.
Author:
Kenneth Noland
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I've also been willing to share any help that I could give to any other artist.
Author:
Kenneth Noland
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As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.
Author:
Michael Nesmith
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Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
Author:
Holly Near
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I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
Author:
Martin Mull
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
Author:
Robin Morgan
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Author:
Marianne Moore
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The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
Author:
Ashley Montagu
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I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.
Author:
Meredith Monk
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
Author:
Claude Monet
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The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
Author:
Piet Mondrian
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Author:
Henry Miller
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Author:
Agnes Mille
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The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Author:
Michelangelo
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Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Author:
Mencius
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Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Author:
Marshall McLuhan
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I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.
Author:
Reba McEntire
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I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?
Author:
Paul McDonald
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I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.
Author:
Kathy Mattea
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You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself.
Author:
Kathy Mattea
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
Author:
Henri Matisse
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A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
Author:
Roberto Marx
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I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
Author:
Branford Marsalis
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I try to keep my ear to the streets without sacrificing who I am as an artist. If a song needs a drum machine I'll use a drum machine. If it needs a drummer, I'll use a real drummer.
Author:
Teena Marie
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I just want to be written about as a normal artist.
Author:
Robert Mapplethorpe
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Author:
Andre Malraux
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Author:
Mako
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You're going to be entertained. But when you finish hearing me singing, you're going to want to keep going, and you're going to keep believing and that's the kind of artist I am.
Author:
Jacob Lusk
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I cannot exist as a solo artist.
Author:
Courtney Love
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But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
Author:
John Lone
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But if you have a point of view and you're an artist or a writer, it's kind of crazy to not take advantage of that, especially if you can do something that's entertaining as well. I've done a number of things like that over the years.
Author:
David Lloyd
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Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.
Author:
Franz Liszt
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Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.
Author:
Franz Liszt
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My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Author:
Gyorgy Ligeti
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Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
Author:
Jet Li
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The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
Author:
Sol LeWitt
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I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
Author:
Sol LeWitt
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Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.
Author:
Juliette Lewis
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Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
Author:
Sugar Leonard
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I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.
Author:
David Lean
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I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.
Author:
Jerry Lawler
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As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
Author:
John Langdon
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I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all.
Author:
Joe Lando
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But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected.
Author:
Talib Kweli
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I'm an artist who works with pictures and words. Sometimes that stuff ends up in different kinds of sites and contexts which determine what it means and looks like.
Author:
Barbara Kruger
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I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
Author:
Barbara Kruger
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The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
Author:
Lenny Kravitz
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I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
Author:
Lee Krasner
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As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.
Author:
Lee Krasner
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The procedure was that an artist got a mural and then he would have anywhere from two to ten assistants depending on the size of the mural and how many assistants he needed, or she needed.
Author:
Lee Krasner
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For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.
Author:
Vladimir Kramnik
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Author:
Willem Kooning
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There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.
Author:
Shirley Knight
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Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.
Author:
Gustav Klimt
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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
Author:
Thomas Kinkade
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I didn't want to be an artist.
Author:
Carole King
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Of course, the kids who had never heard of a person called Ben E. King were then aware of the name associated with the song. That gave a tremendous lift to me as an artist.
Author:
Ben King
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I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.
Author:
Maynard Keenan
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There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.
Author:
Maynard Keenan
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
Author:
Elia Kazan
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The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.
Author:
Walter Kaufmann
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It's the role of the artist to pursue content.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Author:
Anish Kapoor
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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Author:
Pauline Kael
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When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
Author:
Ashley Judd
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I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.
Author:
Milla Jovovich
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I always saw myself as a multi media artist.
Author:
Holly Johnson
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To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Author:
Jasper Johns
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
Author:
Waylon Jennings
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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Author:
Wyclef Jean
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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.
Author:
Etta James
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Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.
Author:
James Huneker
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When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.
Author:
Reed Hundt
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Author:
Victor Hugo
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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
Author:
Robert Hughes
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Author:
Langston Hughes
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Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.
Author:
Terrence Howard
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Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
Author:
Brad Holland
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I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.
Author:
Howard Hodgkin
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Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
Author:
George Higgins
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As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
Author:
Charlton Heston
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist.
Author:
Ronald Harwood
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
Author:
Isaac Hanson
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Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.
Author:
Sammy Hagar
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I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.
Author:
David Guterson
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The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
Author:
Robin Gross
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Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
Author:
Bill Griffith
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A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
Author:
Juan Goytisolo
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The relationship between the public and the artist is complex and difficult to explain. There is a fine line between using this critical energy creatively and pandering to it.
Author:
Andy Goldsworthy
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The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
Author:
Johann Goethe
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Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
Author:
Alma Gluck
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I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.
Author:
John Glover
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Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
Author:
Theophile Gautier
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Author:
Jose Gasset
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Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut.
Author:
Art Garfunkel
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But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.
Author:
John Galliano
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
Author:
Lady Gaga
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
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R. Fuller
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Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
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John Frusciante
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I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.
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Glenn Frey
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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.
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Lukas Foss
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Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
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Lukas Foss
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As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
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Tom Ford
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I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.
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Phil Foglio
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Within two weeks of working with her, I realized how good she was for the role because she was absolutely with it and she has got terrific instincts, I think, as an artist, too.
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Albert Finney
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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Federico Fellini
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An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
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William Faulkner
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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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Siobhan Fahey
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I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
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Eminem
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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Ralph Emerson
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
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Henry Ellis
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To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.
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Don Ellis
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It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
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Loren Eiseley
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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
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Max Eastman
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The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.
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John Dyer
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
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Lawrence Durrell
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When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
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Placido Domingo
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A great artist is never poor.
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Isak Dinesen
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On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
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Robert Delaunay
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
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Eugene Delacroix
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That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
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Edward Craig
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It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.
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Richard Corliss
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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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Francis Coppola
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There was never any effort made out there to improve the artist.
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Jackie Cooper
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The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing picnic parties are heard above.
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Cyril Connolly
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The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
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Cyril Connolly
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With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
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Bruce Conner
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As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.
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Sidonie Colette
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Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
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Cy Coleman
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An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
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Jean Cocteau
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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist.
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Jean Cocteau
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
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Van Cliburn
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The freedom of every artist is essential.
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Christo
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The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture.
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Raymond Chandler
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The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.
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Marc Chagall
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The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
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Paul Cezanne
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The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
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Willa Cather
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As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
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John Cassavetes
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The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.
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John Cassavetes
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Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.
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Joyce Cary
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I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.
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Caleb Carr
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I am not an angel and do not pretend to be. That is not one of my roles. But I am not the devil either. I am a woman and a serious artist, and I would like so to be judged.
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Maria Callas
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You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
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Maria Callas
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
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Alexander Calder
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I was a scam artist in high school for a while.
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Scott Caan
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It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
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Gary Burton
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Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
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James Burke
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
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Charles Bukowski
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Any artist always has misgivings about calling himself an artist.
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Bill Budge
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I'm having fun just being a musician as well as an artist at this point.
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Peabo Bryson
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My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.
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Meredith Brooks
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The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
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Billy Bragg
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I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way.
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David Bowie
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
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Christian Bovee
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One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
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Michael Bolton
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It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.
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Suzy Bogguss
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I've always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.
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Suzy Bogguss
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I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
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Don Bluth
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
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William Blake
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I wanted to be the perfect artist. I'd do three hours of media interviews a day, going to every radio station I could squeeze in. I'd sign autographs after the show until everybody left.
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Clint Black
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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Theodore Bikel
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Every man is an artist.
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Joseph Beuys
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Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist.
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Mary Bethune
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The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
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Ludwig Bemelmans
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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.
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Saul Bellow
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Samuel Beckett
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No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
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Beck
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I am not a black artist, I am an artist.
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Jean-Michel Basquiat
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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
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Jacques Barzun
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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
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Ethel Barrymore
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I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.
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Antonio Banderas
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I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
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Erykah Badu
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I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
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Erykah Badu
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I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
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Kevin Bacon
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Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
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Sebastian Bach
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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.
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Jane Austen
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I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.
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Rene Auberjonois
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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Laurie Anderson
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As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
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Laurie Anderson
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It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
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Steve Albini
