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" Quotes and Sayings About an artist

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Artist Cease Did Ever
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You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Help Artist Concerned Reflect
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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Artist Reflect Times
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Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
Artist Experience I Think Important
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

Artist Deal Make Record
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

Ability Am Artist Choose
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Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all

Am Artist Being Both
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My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

Artist Give Inspire Now
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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.

Anyone Artist Concern Else
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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.

Artist Being Constantly Could
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

Artist Guy Just Myself
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Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.

Artist Collaborate Every Every Time
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.

Artist Chosen Forte Heard
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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.

Want Solidify An Artist
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As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

Artist Now Interpret Material
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I think my original ambition was to be an artist.
Ambition Artist I Think Original
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In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.

Artist Became Educating IPod
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An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.

Against Side Artist Emperor
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A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.

Man Certain Moment Effort
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“I don't believe in total freedom for the artist. Left on his own, free to do anything he likes, the artist ends up doing nothing at all. If there's one thing that's dangerous for an artist, it's precisely this question of total freedom, waiting for inspiration and all the rest of it.”

Believe Freedom Artist Ends
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To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

Artist Fail Failure World
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In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.

Life Single-color Palette Meaning
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There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

Artistic Attained Creation Development
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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.

Always Artist Born Dear
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An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

Always Artist Artistic Duty
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I don't think Hollywood makes many good films anymore. How many directors can you really trust to have an artistic vision, not a corporate vision or a watered-down communal one?

Anymore Artistic Communal Corporate
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

About Artist Could Day
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.

Art Artist Baltimore Before
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Artist Interpret Life Meaning
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An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Artist Competition God Somebody
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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.

Artist Artists Burdens Citizen
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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.

Artist Besides Me Movie
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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.

Any Artist Calling Duty
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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.

Artist Does Fact Feel
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Allowed Always Artist Coincide
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I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.

Art Artist Men Common
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An artist is an entertainer of mankind. You are created to entertain all political parties, not to prefer one political party because you have been compromised. It’s unethical.

Entertainer Mankind Created Political parties
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My personal journey as a filmmaker is quite an unusual one. Born an artist, I have always sought expression for the creativity in me. The yearning to create and bring my imaginations to reality pushes me further.

Personal journey Filmmaker Born An artist
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.

Absolute Acquired Artist Been
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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.

Artist Disciplined Drama Go
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The best thing is to always keep honest people around, because when you have a bunch of yes men around that know that you're making a mistake but let you go on with it, that's when it ruins your mind state as an artist.

Always Around Artist Because
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All artists need to have a sense of curiosity, and if you are not a curious person, then you cannot be an artist.

All artist Curiosity Person
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When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

Any Artist Aunts Business
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I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.

Artist Before Emotions Felt
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With me being an artist that took over a decade to get on, there's so many different things that I have in common with artists that's struggling to get on.

Artist Artists Being Common
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I respect the Grammys, being a writer. But me being an artist representing hip hop? No

Artist Being Grammys Hip
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I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

Artist Brains Common Enjoy
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If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Artist Doubt Interest No Interest
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Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

Artist Because Consider Ever
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Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

Artist Artwork Care Chance
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