Quotes about artist
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A lot of MTV's programming is hip-hop based, and the messages are usually all about bling bling. A lot of hip-hop artists sing about stuff that's more important, but they seldom get heard. The ones who get heard are the ones saying, 'Think about yourself. Make your money. It's all you. Everybody have a good time and party.' Daron Malakian
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
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A group called Rosetta Life, that sends artists out to hospices in England, came to talk to me in February 2003. I lost my partner of 22 years in November 2002, so I was really in my grieving process - I still am - but I was thinking of nothing but impermanence then. Meredith Monk
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A good martial artist does not become tense but ready. Not thinking yet not dreaming, ready for whatever may come. A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and face the consequences of his own doing. To have no technique, there is no opponent, because the word 'I' does not exist. When the opponent expands I contract and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, 'I' do not hit, 'It' hits all by itself. Bruce Lee
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A great artist has died, a man with the hallmarks of a genius. Andrzej Wajda
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A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore! Robert A Robert A. Heinlein
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Agnes Varda changed my view of cinema; she directs from an artistic point of view, and a film is most of all the expression of an artistic director. I learnt to enter the world and the imagination of a director.
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It is necessary that the object that the artist is shaping, whether it be a vase of clay or a fishing boat, be significant of something other than itself. This object must be a sign as well as an object; a meaning must animate it, and make it say more than it is. Jacques Maritain
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The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.
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All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what. Jacob Lawrence
artist world scapegoat
The artist is the world's scapegoat. Jacob Epstein
artist wife lovers
A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.
artist order portraits
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, which will be a pleasure to the sitter and to himself, will have some bitter experiences.
artist play giving
I have a lot of compact discs. I need them for radio play and convenience. Many bands and artists I am a fan of don't always release their work on vinyl, so I take what they feel like giving me. Henry Rollins
artist albums half
For many, an album is no longer a considerable feat of an artist but just sounds to be half-listened to while one is halfheartedly engaged in something else.
artist giving roles
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.
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An artist's business is only to see. Henry Adams
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Artists... disappeared long ago as social forces. So did the church.
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Every so often every artist feels, 'I'll never paint again. The muse has gone out the window.' In 1985, I hardly painted at all for three months, and it was agonizing. I looked at reproductions. I stared at Matisse. I stared at the Old Masters. I stared at the Quattrocento. And I thought to myself - Don't push it! If you try too hard to get at something, you almost push it away. Helen Frankenthaler
artist enough should
It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear. Hector Berlioz
artist age study
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study. Hedda Sterne
artist civilization clown
In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. Malcolm Muggeridge
artist promise drs
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.
artist painting interest
My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout. Jackson Pollock
artist paint
I don't paint nature. I am nature.
artist littles painting
I'm very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you're painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge.
artist discovery self
Something in me knows where I’m going, and - well, painting is a state of being. ... Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
artist color drawing
I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.
artist serenity world
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
artist etc painting
I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.
artist discovery self
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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And it may be that Lautrec is a very different artist than some people anticipated. People came knowing his posters of the Moulin Rouge, but they then discovered that he's a very accomplished painter with a depth of humanity that wasn't known to most people.
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And moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul . . . the brave soul. The soul that dares and defies. Kate Chopin