"No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman."
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"An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it."
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"I've had far more success than I ever expected. But I do think that a lot of successful artists have an aim to be successful, even if they don't outwardly sound like it. I never really expected success."
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"Whenever I have time, I try to get in the studio and write, whether it's for me or other artists or my catalog of music. It's definitely one of my favorite parts of the music industry."
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"The artist is a person who is expert in the training of perception."
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"The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go."
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"Every artist who evolves a style does so from illusive elements that inhabit his or her visual storehouse."
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"It is the individual artist who must act courageously in an effort to grow."
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"One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it."
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"Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing."
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"Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think."
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"You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things."
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"I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on."
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"The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning."
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"I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist."
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"The role of art in society differs for every artist."
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"I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know."
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"She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important."
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"I feel that as artists - whatever your medium is - I feel that we're watching what goes on around us and we take what we don't see, or we don't hear, or we don't feel and we do something that speaks of it; more about it, for it, or against it - whatever our perspective is - that's what our job is."
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"I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude."
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