A work of art is one through which the consciousness of the artist is able to give its emotions to anyone who is prepared to receive them. There is no such thing as bad art.
Muriel Rukeyser
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The more you know about Bob Dylan, the less you know. A truly enigmatic artist, Mr. Dylan's work and life offer vaporous handholds, explanations, and instructions. Attempt to grasp them, and they will only dissipate and re-form into another contexture or idea.
David Means
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One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
Michael Bolton
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All the things that can happen to an artist regardless of how prepared they are and how smart they are and hard-working they are and attractive - doesn't matter. There's always somebody cuter. There just is.
George C. Wolfe
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To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Jasper Johns
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I'm an artist, and I'm part of every decision in a movie.
Pedro Almodovar
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I want to do musician things and start making this my life. I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour. I want to take this time and be a sponge and start meeting people and start - just start.
James Wolpert
LifeTimePeopleStartLearnArtist
When people see you have a song on MTV, they think you are doing well - but you know, the way the traditional label deal was set up, it is really hard for an artist, unless they sold a lot, to see anything.
Jill Sobule
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
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When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.
Ruth Bernhard
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
Samuel Beckett
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They say your childhood influences your tastes and interests, or your approach if you're an artist. So what you create, whatever you saw, whatever your childhood was like - it influences how you're going to end up.
Brett Ratner
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An artist must create. If she doesn't, she will become a menace to society.
Maria Semple
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney
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One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.
Johnny Colt
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The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.
Gene Luen Yang
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When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
Josh Peck
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An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
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I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.
James Sanborn
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I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.
Jerry Saltz
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Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
Terri Windling
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I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point of view.
Roisin Murphy
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When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
Takeshi Kitano
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I'm a self trained, autodidactic artist, so all I was ever trying to do was to draw as realistically as possible - but that's what comes out, because I don't really know how to draw! I think when I draw characters, I'm able to reduce them down to little marks that capture the most distinct elements of them.
Box Brown
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