I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
Martin Mull
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The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
David Leavitt
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He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
John Ruskin
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Our first manager really pushed that we not sell our publishing rights, which is one of the earliest things an artist will do: They'll sell in order to get a cash advance.
Isaac Hanson
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
Jose Ortega y Gasset
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I wanna grow and develop as an artist, and I feel like different kinds of collaborations can only help me in that way.
Sharon Van Etten
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
James Joyce
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Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.
Jerry Saltz
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Ai Weiwei, who is both a widely admired conceptual artist and a fearless human-rights activist, has been on the bad side of the Chinese government for years.
Terry Teachout
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A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
Roy H. Williams
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The only way for me to be an artist is to be honest in my craft. If I veer from that, I'm not giving the investors what they want. Sometimes it's my job as an artist to know what I want to do, even when the fans tell me different.
Talib Kweli
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I am probably the oldest new artist Sony has ever signed.
Bradley Walsh
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha Graham
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One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
David Foster Wallace
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I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
John Updike
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
Jonathan Lethem
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I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.
Shawn Mendes
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The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
Gustave Flaubert
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On 'Idol,' you have to show off your vocal abilities, so I stuck to the ballads, so I'm glad my first single is 'Tonight' so I can show off my fun, young side, and what I want to do as an artist.
Jessica Sanchez
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I've always been an artist who's about being real and about telling the truth and making music with integrity and talking about something.
Santigold
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As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.
Rufus Wainwright
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
Salman Rushdie
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Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
Bruno Dumont
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