Ai Weiwei Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Artist Quotes

It became like a symbolic thing, to be “an artist.” After Duchamp, I realized that being an artist is more about a lifestyle and attitude than producing some product.

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The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

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You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Artist Quotes , Wish Quotes

It's hard to say, I picked one of my favorite articles for the MAD vault. Which is one of the features of the Magazine so they don't have to actually pay artists or writers to come up with new stuff.

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When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Art Quotes , Artist Quotes

I look on Sculpture as history. I do not think the Apollo and the Jove impossible in flesh and blood. Every trait the artist recorded in stone, he had seen in life, and better than his copy.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Artist Quotes , Thinking Quotes

Well, a lot of people within government and big business are nervous of Hip Hop and Hip Hop artists, because they speak their minds. They talk about what they see and what they feel and what they know. They reflect what's around them.

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We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

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The reason artists show so little interest In public freedom is because the freedom They've come to feel the need of is a kind No one can give them they can scarce attain The freedom of their own material.

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Tags : Robert Frost Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Artist Quotes

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Artist Quotes , Style Quotes

The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer.

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There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Dream Quotes , Artist Quotes

Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

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Tags : Ai Weiwei Quotes , Selfish Quotes , Artist Quotes

The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Artist Quotes , Men Quotes

I think most artists feel like they're outside society - no matter how many accolades they receive, or how much money is in your bank account, whatever is going on in your life on the professional side.

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Tags : Aaron Rose Quotes , Artist Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

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As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Artist Quotes , Light Quotes

Naturally one would rather be a broad artist with power to evoke beauty from every phase of experience--but when one unmistakably isn't such an artist, there's no sense in bluffing and faking and pretending that one is.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Artist Quotes , Phases Quotes