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How can you be an artist and not reflect the times?

Artist Reflect Times
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.

Amongst Art Artist Audience
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I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

About Artistry Back Bringing
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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 don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.

Artifice Chooses ISee Life
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

Artists Bear Buy Element
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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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I'm not interested in people positioning me next to other artists.
Artists Interested Me Next
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Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times

Able Actor Artist Great
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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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Anybody can be a rapper, but not anybody can be a classical artist.

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Anybody Artist Classical Rapper
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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.

Any Artist Been Details
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I see myself as a new artist again who is hustling. That's my mentality, I don’t walk into a room expecting anyone to know who I am. I'm just here to get a seat at the table

Artist Hustling Mentality Know
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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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You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.

Artistic Bored Creative Disappointed
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Anything Artists Attain Cannot
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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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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.

All Powerful Artist Creation Everywhere
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I feel blessed to even be able to put out an English album. Not too many Latin artists get the opportunity to come out and record another genre that's so different to Bachata.

Able Album Another Artists
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But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

About Artists Bringing City
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For me rappers and dancers are poets and artists and often times the most interesting performances are given by them.

Artists Dancers Given Interesting
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My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin - which I love.
Artist Daily ILove Importance
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Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

Artists Everything Helps Long
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My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

Artist Ancing Dream Favorite
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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.

Bad Artist Good Bad
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My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

Artistic Arts Began Candle
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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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Not every artist is a role model.
Artist Every Model Role
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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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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.

As Artist We're Always
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The artists that we grew up listening to was also independent like Master P, like Birdman and Lil Wayne.

The Artist That We
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I'm going to die unhappy. That's how artists roll!
Artists Die Going How
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I like the idea of a fully realized collection with artists.

Artists Collection Fully Idea
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Fashion and music are two great artistic forms that can be molded by the youth culture - our taste and our passion for evolving things in our limited time on earth allows us to look at things with fresh eyes.

Artistic Culture Earth Evolving
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I think my original ambition was to be an artist.
Ambition Artist I Think Original
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

Art Artistic Balance Both
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The song, 'Life is Better,' is about hip-hop. It's about my love for hip-hop. And, you know, I go through all the artists from the beginning to the end, you know. And, well, not to the end, but since the beginning to now, you know.

About Artists Beginning Better
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I think each artist lives with purpose. A strong sense of purpose. We know who's come before us.

Think Each Artist Lives
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If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
Art Nourish Culture Society
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I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.

Think The Jobs Artist
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First of all, I respect The Game. He's trail-blazed for artists like myself. I appreciate him, having - living in L.A. myself and knowing what he stands for and what he stood for.

First Of All Respect
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I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Against Artists Dangerous Great
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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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Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

Art Art Form Artists Business
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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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