Best Artist Wisdom
5936 Artist quotes by 2987 unique authors
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All art requires courage.
— Anne Wilkes Tucker
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It doesn't matter one damn bit whether fashion is art or not. You don't question whether an incredible chef is an artist or not-his cakes…
— Sonia Rykiel
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The books of the great scientists are gathering dust on the shelves of learned libraries. ... While the artist's communication is linked forever with its…
— Max Delbruck
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I felt like I was definitely robbed, and I refuse to give any politically correct bullshit ass comment. I was the best new artist this…
— Kanye West
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That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen.
— Unknown Author
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Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself.
— Herb Goldberg
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I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
— Laurie Anderson
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Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely…
— Raymond Chandler
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Appreciation is the breath of life to the creative artist, and in spite of modern conditions, there is enough abroad to sustain him. But his…
— Walter J. Phillips
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A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I…
— Bruce Lee
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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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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his…
— Osbert Sitwell
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To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom…
— John Gerstner
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The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. ... One might point out how the Renaissance was…
— Oscar Wilde
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are…
— Langston Hughes
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A lot of times, when a band finds success with a certain style or sound, they have a really hard time breaking away from that…
— Matt Cameron
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Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
— Colin Davis
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Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
— Lawrence Durrell
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Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
— Pablo Picasso
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After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from…
— Tom Platz
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Having a great golf swing helps under pressure, but golf is a game about scoring. It's like an artist who can get a two-inch brush…
— Jerry Pate
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The artist's role is to do what is honest for them. So if you're in New York and everyone is looking at the floor, you…
— Unknown Author
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An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This…
— Julia Cameron
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I would be the last to disparage the genius of the politicians who make our laws," Hutchison wrote around that time, "the writers who make…
— Bruce Hutchison
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