"The invitation for artists to compete to see……" — Bruce Cockburn

"The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing."

— Bruce Cockburn

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39 Quotes by Bruce Cockburn

Bruce Cockburn has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were…
Some people never see the light Till it shines thru bullet holes.
Water of life is gonna flow again/changed from the blood of heroes and knaves/Word mercy's gonna have a new meaning/…
The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
I wear my shadows where they're harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me…
Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.
My models for graceful aging are guys like John Lee Hooker and Mississippi John Hurt, who never stopped working till…
Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.
Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession,…
All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.
One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.
Lord, spit on our eyes that we may see, how to wake up from this tragedy.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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