"The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories."
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"The artist is always beginning."
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"Artists are the antennae of the race."
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"The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse."
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"This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it."
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"And it's always the same kind of artist, I think, who has more enjoyment being slightly on the outside of things, who doesn't want to be sucked into the tyranny of the mainstream. Because once you get sucked into that, you're dead as an artist."
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"Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try to talk about ways of working toward redeeming what's wrong, because they'll look sentimental and naive to all the weary ironists. Irony's gone from liberating to enslaving. ... The postmodern founders' patricidal work was great, but patricide produces orphans, and no amount of revelry can make up for the fact that writers my age have been literary orphans throughout our formative years."
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"Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul."
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"The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side."
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"Exaggerated passion combined with enthusiasm has the ingredients to make a prolific artist."
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"The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation."
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"Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright."
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"I'm selfish, I think. I think an artist has to be. I'm not worried about what people think. I play the parts that I find interesting. It'd bother me more to be just pigeonholed into doing what people think is ethical or that's boring to me. I don't pick parts with that in mind, I just find interesting stories. If it's interesting to me, then I do it."
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"I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament."
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"Like most artists, I live out of a suitcase."
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"In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself."
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"There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde."
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"The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich."
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"The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward."
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"Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me."
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