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Artists Quotes by Robert Genn
- Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.
- Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though…
- Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
- As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
- We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
- Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the…
- We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
- The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery.…
- Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
- Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's…
- True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.
- We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose.…
- We artists allow others to see through our windows.
- Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
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- A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. — Honore de Balzac
- We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it. — John Banville
- The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest… — P T Barnum
- Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
- Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events. — John Berger
- The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end… — Adele
- To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously… — Arnold Bennett
- I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that's odd, but I think it's odd if artists aren't… — Bono
- The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were… — Bono