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Being rich is an untalented artist’s consolation prize.

—Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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ArtArtistsConsolation-Prize
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I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.

—Criss Jami

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ArtistsConformityCreativity
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To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.

—M. Thomas

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ArtistsCreativityFailure
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Guys don’t understand great art. They don’t care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They’re threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me....

—Joan Bauer

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What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. … In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cover...

—John Lubbock

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ArtistsBotanistsFarmer
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Compared to a lot of artists, I’m usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

—Paloma Faith

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He showed videotape of himself committing acts of self-violence and informing news crews that he had been assaulted by a marauding mob of irate art historians.

—Johnny Rich

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… but now men who could work preferred to beg, and the artists forgot that their calling was noble and became imitators instead of creators, charging exorbitant sums for the rubbish they churned out with...

—Pauline Gedge

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The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed.Someone can always do your job a little...

—Seth Godin

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ArtArtistsCommitment
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I had already established, as you know, that it was logically impossible for Kenneth to be distressed by anything that might occur between Ned and myself; but Kenneth, being an artist, has perhaps not studied...

—Sarah Caudwell

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ArtistsDistressLogic
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The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer

—Alfred de Musset

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You have given intelligence to find one solution, and imagination to find ten.

—Amit Kalantri

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She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her works would turn out as she eyed the blank sheets of paper or...

—E.A. Bucchianeri

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No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

—Edward Hopper

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The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they’ll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.

—Corey Taylor

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Artists can have greater access to reality; they can see patterns and details and connections that other people, distracted by the blur of life, might miss. Just sharing that truth can be a very powerful...

—Jay-Z

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The knowledge an artist possesses is an advanced form of daydreaming.

—Marty Rubin

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The idea that any art is achieved ‘intuitively’ is a dehumanization of the brains, effort, and the traditions of the artist, and a classification of said artist as subhuman. It is those supposed incapable of...

—Joanna Russ

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ArtArtistsHard-Work
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Yes, but the artist?” said Nigel almost fiercely. “He’s different, you know he is. He’s driven by some compulsion: if he can’t do what he knows he has to do with his life he might...

—Mary Stewart

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After being hurt by the world so much, they began to see the demons within humans. So without hiding it through trickery, they worked to express it.

—Osamu Dazai

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ArtArtistsCreativity
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Most artists weren’t famous until they died (mostly because once they’d died they couldn’t create any more art, so it would make it more valuable).

—Sariah Wilson

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ArtArtistsDead
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Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.

—Ted Lange

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Tattooing, when understood in its entirety, must be seen as a religious act. The human being brings forth images from the center of the self and communicates them to the world. Fantasy is embodied in...

—Spider Webb

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ArtArtistsBody-Art
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It is impossible to see how good work might be accomplished by people who think that our life in this world either signifies nothing or has only a negative significance.If, on the other hand, we...

—Wendell Berry

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ArtArtistsCreation
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We do it because we care. We care that Vincent Van Gogh mutilated his ear. We care that behind a pile of manure in the yard he destroyed his life. We care that Scott Joplin’s...

—Alice Walker

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Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

—Annette Messager

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ArtistsSensibility
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Lucien, women are wondrous, mysterious, and magical creatures, who should be treated not only with respect but with reverence, perhaps even awe. Now go sweep the steps.

—Christopher Moore

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Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label ‘artist’ is to be used lightly.

—Criss Jami

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ArtArtistsBeing-Different
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Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.

—Claire Danes

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ArtistsFavorite
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The first thousand are the hardest.

—Herbert Gute

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The artist, like the God of 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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With the manipulation of abstract symbols, an artist can send you information without sound, change your feelings and,sometimes, even beliefs. Artists convey the unspeakable. Artists inspire.

—Jonathan Culver

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ArtArtistsInspiration
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I think I’m more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway.

—Jonny Lang

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ArtistsGeneralStuff
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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil’s traps for artists.

—Logan Pearsall

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ArtArtists
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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a...

—Oscar Wilde

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ArtistsLife
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There are Tantrics who deliberately break taboos and social norms and then there are other Tantrics who, by means of their practices and the way that they practice, that to society in general, it may...

—Zeena Schreck

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I’m finding that I’m working with more and more Latino artists, and that’s exciting.

—Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

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ArtistsExcitingFinding
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For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.

—Wayne Gerard

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I believe there is little to gain by exchanging opinions with other artists concerning either the ideology of art or technical methods.

—Yves Tanguy

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ArtistsEither
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of...

—Aberjhani

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If you are really bored with life, just meet a decent magician and have a close up magic show, he will restore inspiration in your life.

—Amit Kalantri

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ArtArtistArtistry
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Blank walls are a shared canvas and we’re all artists.

—Carla H. Krueger

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ArtArtistsCreativity
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When I compare myself to the other fellows there is something stiff and awkward about me; I look as if I had been in prison for ten years.

—Irving Stone

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more to be a human being with

—Gary D.

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ArtArtistsBooks
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Be an artist, in whatever little faculty possible.For the Earth, without ‘Art’ is just ‘Eh

—Jasleen Kaur

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ArtArtistArtistry
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Essential acts to master for self realisation;Master the act of learning.Master the act of writing.Master the act of reading.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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So, really,” continued Jacob as if this were perfectly normal to expound on art in these circumstances, “when you think about it, the artists who make people stop and think, who push the form, who...

—Justina Chen

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ArtArtistsLaughable
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In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless...

—Jennifer Birkett

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ArtistsConsumerDecadence
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There is a LOT of bad news every day. The world seems to be getting more and more crazy. So every time you see some bad news, go do something nice for someone or go...

—Marcy Ferro

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ArtArtistsInspirational
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The working artist will not tolerate trouble in her life because she knows trouble prevents her from doing her work. The working artist banishes from her world all sources of trouble. She harnesses the urge...

—Steven Pressfield

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ArtArtistsCreativity
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