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People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

Any Artist Ask Being
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To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.

Artist Darkness Duty Hearts
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

Artists Devil Familiar Good
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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?

Anybody Anything Art Artist
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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Art Artists Create Ego
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I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be.

Artist Egotistical I Can Means
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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

An artist Prisoner
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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.

Years Preparation Young artist Color
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The artist must summon all his energy, his sincerity, and the greatest modesty in order to shatter the old cliches that come so easily to hand while working, which can suffocate the little flower that does not come, ever, the way one expects.

Summon Energy Sincerity Greatest modesty
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The effort to see things without distortion takes something like courage and this courage is essential to the artist, who has to look at everything as though he saw it for the first time

Effort Distortion Courage Essential
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The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring an effort.

Vision Creative operation Effort
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I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career. I understand that somewhere there's a peak and a crest for me, and I'm going to enjoy all levels. I'm going to enjoy this ride that I'm on, and when it slows down, that's when it will be time for another phase of my life.

About Another Artists Bitter
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To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one.

Artist Certainly Could Crossed
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My best artist friend is definitely Jason Aldean. He and I really get along great and are really great friends. It's fun to tour with a buddy and somebody that I just enjoy hanging out with. If we weren't touring together, we'd be hunting in the off-season still and knocking around doing stuff, certainly.

Along Around Artist Best
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I've been out with lots of other artists opening for them on tour, and you just learn that none of their success came easy - it was all hard work for them, and you have to buckle down and get ready for the hard work yourself, too.

Artists Been Came Down
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I wouldn't necessarily say she is a country artist. I mean, obviously Taylor Swift started in country, but she morphed into somewhat of a cultural icon, so, who am I to judge what she is?

Am Artist Country Cultural
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I hope someone thinks I sing good. I'm always working hard to sing better. I sound the way I sound, but I can always be better. I work hard at singing and being a better recording artist.

Always Artist Being Better
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I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

Artistic Be Happy Before Come
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A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Allowed Altogether Artist Critics
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Admired Appears Art Artist
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I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

Artistic Basis Business Constantly
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Acting Always Artist Get
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Artist Expressing Feelings His
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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.

Artist Energy Expressing Forces
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Age Airplane Any Artists
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Artist Every Good He
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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.

Big Brush Building Choose
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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Artists Belief Delightful Given
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist Own soul Nature
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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

Arrogance Artist Profound Thing
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Artists Because Crowd Drama
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Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.

Every artist Brush Soul
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I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.
Anything Artist Like Never
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Arms Better Fine Gesture
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

Also Artist Electrical Engineer
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
After Artist Exciting Label
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Above Artist Behind Beyond
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That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.

Artist Attention Kind Motivation
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I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.

About Across Always Artistic
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At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

Artist Money Celebrity Time
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

Play Profile Radio Artist
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All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

Artists Big Formula Music
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I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.

Always Artist Chicks Like
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The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.

Abstract artist Material existence Unseen worlds
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Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

Great innovators Original thinkers Mediocrities
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So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.

Ultimately Idealistic Think Artists
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The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

The artist Feel Completely satisfied Harmonious colors
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I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.

Not opposed Commerce An artist
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Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

An artist Be responsible Quite challenging More difficult
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