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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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There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
Author:
Emile Zola
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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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They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.
Author:
Rick Yune
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What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
Author:
Al Yankovic
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The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Author:
Richard Wright
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As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
Author:
Peter Wright
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We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
Author:
Gary Wright
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No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.
Author:
Gary Wright
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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Author:
Virginia Woolf
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As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
Author:
Alfre Woodard
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We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Author:
Ed Wood
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Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Author:
Thomas Wolfe
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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 don't believe that recordings should sound radically better than the artist, I think that's dishonest. For example, I'm not a great singer but if I spent enough time tweaking my vocals, I could sound like one. But I don't, what you hear is pretty much what I sing.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
Author:
Malcolm Wilson
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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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Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.
Author:
Connie Willis
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Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
Author:
Tennessee Williams
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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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I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.
Author:
William Wiley
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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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Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive.
Author:
Crane Wilbur
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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 is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Author:
James Whistler
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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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As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.
Author:
Kim Weston
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I was always confident in my art and in myself as an artist.
Author:
Kim Weston
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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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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Author:
Rebecca West
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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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I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Author:
Orson Welles
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I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
Author:
Max Weinberg
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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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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Author:
Andy Warhol
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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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To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
Author:
Larry Wall
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Author:
Larry Wall
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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.
Author:
Denis Waitley
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I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.
Author:
Tom Verlaine
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I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.
Author:
James Vega
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An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Author:
Edgard Varese
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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
Author:
Agnes Varda
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Author:
Paul Valery
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Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Author:
Kenneth Tynan
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I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.
Author:
Ike Turner
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A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
Author:
Robin Trower
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What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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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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I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
Author:
Marisa Tomei
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Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
Author:
Leo Tolstoy
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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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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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I'm inspired by nature. Other artist's work is important for developing my perception.
Author:
Mike Thompson
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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 am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
Author:
Rod Taylor
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
Author:
James Taylor
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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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The physical characteristics of the child Jesus will always remain a point of discussion. No artist has ever produced a type, nor ever will, that has in it all that the varying minds of all time will acknowledge as complete.
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 think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs.
Author:
Taylor Swift
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I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.
Author:
Matthew Sweet
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Author:
Patrick Swayze
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Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Author:
Gloria Swanson
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Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
Author:
Jock Sturges
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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 don't call myself an artist. I act. That's what I do.
Author:
Lusia Strus
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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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An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
Author:
Stephen Stills
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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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No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.
Author:
Frank Stella
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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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The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
Author:
Edward Steichen
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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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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
Author:
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
Author:
Jimmy Smits
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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Author:
Robert Smithson
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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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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
Author:
Patti Smith
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No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
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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No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.
Author:
Joey Skaggs
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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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Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
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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I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.
Author:
Ashlee Simpson
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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'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.
Author:
Bobby Sherman
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It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
Author:
Jules Shear
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As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member.
Author:
Tommy Shaw
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In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Author:
Georges Seurat
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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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At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
Author:
Harry Seidler
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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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The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
Author:
John Scott
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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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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Author:
Robert Schumann
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Is an artist much more than a beggar?
Author:
Clara Schumann
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Author:
Friedrich Schiller
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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
Author:
Richard Schickel
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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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I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
Author:
Boz Scaggs
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
Author:
George Santayana
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Author:
George Sand
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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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That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
Author:
Buffy Sainte-Marie
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
Author:
John Ruskin
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When I go in front of an audience, I'll admit I sometimes have a certain amount of fear in me, because maybe the people are not going to accept what I'm doing today. That's bad for any artist, especially if what you're doing is not in line with what's happening today.
Author:
Jimmy Rushing
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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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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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A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
Author:
Muriel Rukeyser
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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 don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
Author:
Rick Rubin
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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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The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history.
Author:
Harold Rosenberg
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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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I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Author:
Henry Rollins
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It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.
Author:
Romain Rolland
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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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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Author:
Auguste Rodin
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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
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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People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.
Author:
Smokey Robinson
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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.
Author:
Larry Rivers
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
Author:
Rainer Rilke
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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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An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
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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I don't mean that if you're a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Author:
Cliff Richard
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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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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Author:
Auguste Renoir
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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
Author:
Ad Reinhardt
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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Author:
Lou Reed
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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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Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist.
Author:
Helen Reddy
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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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An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy.
Author:
Norman Raine
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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
Author:
Craig Raine
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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Author:
Anthony Quinn
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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 think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
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Richard Price
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From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
Author:
Reynolds Price
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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Jack Prelutsky
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Ezra Pound
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Ezra Pound
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
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Ezra Pound
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You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
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Peter Porter
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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.
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Jackson Pollock
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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Jackson Pollock
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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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.
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Jackson Pollock
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A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.
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Henri Poincare
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God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephantand the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
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Pablo Picasso
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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.
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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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I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.
Author:
Harvey Pekar
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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.
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Alan Parsons
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I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.
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Maxfield Parrish
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I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.
Author:
Gwyneth Paltrow
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I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Author:
Michael Palin
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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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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Yoko Ono
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I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
Author:
Pat Oliphant
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The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
Author:
Ben Okri
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An artist is his own fault.
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John O'Hara
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Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Author:
Carroll O'Connor
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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.
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Laura Nyro
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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Novalis
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The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
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Max Nordau
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What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
Author:
Emil Nolde
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The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
Author:
Emil Nolde
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The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one's own, in one's relation to the tool, the material and the colors.
Author:
Emil Nolde
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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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A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.
Author:
Louis Nizer
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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
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Stevie Nicks
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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.
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Michael Nesmith
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Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don't look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist's soul, my actor's soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.
Author:
Liam Neeson
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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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In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
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Bruce Nauman
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I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.
Author:
Graham Nash
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I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
Author:
Joe Murray
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I'm also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
Author:
Lewis Mumford
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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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There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.
Author:
Alison Moyet
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A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.
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Grandma Moses
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Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
Author:
Giorgio Moroder
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I am an artist and a political being as well.
Author:
Robin Morgan
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I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
Author:
Jeanne Moreau
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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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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
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George Moore
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All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.
Author:
Rick Moody
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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.
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Claude Monet
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The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.
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Piet Mondrian
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My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.
Author:
Liza Minelli
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I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.
Author:
Stephanie Mills
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The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Author:
Henry Miller
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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 arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
Author:
James Michener
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The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
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Michelangelo
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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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The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
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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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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Author:
Golda Meir
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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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For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.
Author:
Craig McCracken
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An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
Author:
Andre Maurois
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Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
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W. Maugham
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
Author:
W. Maugham
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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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An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
Author:
Henri Matisse
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Author:
Henri Matisse
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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 musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
Author:
Abraham Maslow
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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 love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.
Author:
Angie Martinez
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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
Author:
Agnes Martin
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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 am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
Author:
Ziggy Marley
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They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control.
Author:
Teena Marie
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Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.
Author:
Teena Marie
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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 product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
Author:
David Mamet
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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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With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
Author:
Norman Mailer
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I'm the type of artist who touches people, that's the type of artist that I am.
Author:
Jacob Lusk
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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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Every step forwards carries the footprints of yesterday; the future dances in the delightful tension between wrought memories and series of uncharted tomorrows.
Author:
Lila Emera
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I cannot exist as a solo artist.
Author:
Courtney Love
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The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Author:
Adolf Loos
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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
