"When we are moved by art we are grateful that the artist lived, grateful that he labored in the service of his gifts."
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"...it's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that into being a CEO, now you know what the artist wants. That's kinda how I did it."
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"As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes."
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"You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in."
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"As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread."
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"The artist who is not also a craftsman is no good; but, alas, most of our artists are nothing else."
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"To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is a storehouse of images, fancies, a source of inspiration; to the moralist she is a storehouse of precepts and parables; to all she may be a source of knowledge and joy."
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"Writers and artists never pay attention to advice given by their elders, quite rightly. The only worthwhile advice is the most general: Keep trying, don't give up, don't be discouraged, don't pay attention to detractors. Everyone knows this."
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"Jay-Z ain't a manager; he owns a management company. He been through this, he been through the game for a long time so he knows tactics in taking artists in certain directions we need to go in."
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"A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good or bad, it seems to me that I have an abundance of stories to tell. And the things I see, the things that happen to me, continually renew the supply."
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"The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows."
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"It is well with me only when I have a chisel in my hand."
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"As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does"
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"An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality."
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"Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting."
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"As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done"
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"To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic."
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"Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. A strong spirit transcends rules,' Prince once said - and nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his band, and all who loved him."
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"Unfinished paintings are more admired than the finished because the artist's actual thoughts are left visible."
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"Piracy doesn't hurt an artist unless the artist puts out a bad album."
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