"It is the object which aroused the artist, stimulated his ideas and set of his emotions. These ideas and emotions will be imprisoned in his work for good."
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"But when I am alone, I do not have the effrontery to consider myself an artist at all, not in the grand old meaning of the word: Giotto, Titian, Rembrandt, Goya were great painters. I am only a public clown-a mountebank. I have understood my time and have exploited the imbecility, the vanity, the greed of my contemporaries. It is a bitter confession, this confession of mine, more painful than it may seem. But at least and at last it does have the merit of being honest."
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"I never calculate. That is why those who do, calculate so much less accurately than I."
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"The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies."
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"Artists need to fill themselves to overflowing and give it all back."
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"Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new."
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"It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home."
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"I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day."
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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."
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"Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways."
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"Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did."
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"The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work."
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"The great creators-the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors-stood alone against the men of their time."
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"Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself."
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"In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it."
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"When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they're part of a family, not just a tour."
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"Artists must be sacrificed to their art."
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"In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself."
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"Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise."
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"As an artist, I always just want to grow as a songwriter. I listen to a lot of music. I listen to music all the time, whether it's hip-hop or soul or rock or whatever. I'm always listening to music and trying to learn from other songwriters and how they tap into certain emotions and communicate more clearly."
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