Artist Quotes - Page 18

• It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.

  Annie Lennox

  Elements, Picnics, Compare

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• I was raised around a lot of artists, musicians, photographers, painters and people that were in theater. Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn't a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression. We didn't try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth.

  Jared Leto

  Art, Children, Hippie

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• Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

  George Henry Lewes

  Men, Imagination, Degrees

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

  Jet Li

  Two, Waiting, Three

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• Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

  Maya Lin

  Want, Tiny, Architecture

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• I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

  Dave Matthews

  Music, Self, Pity

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• Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.

  Andre Maurois

  Art, Memories, Men

  Andre Maurois, S. C. Roberts (2014). “Aspects of Biography”, p.142, Cambridge University Press

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• Art is anything you can get away with.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Get Away, Art Is

  "Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man". Book by Marshall McLuhan, 1964.

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• The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.

  Golda Meir

  Art, Knowing, People

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• I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

  Maya Lin

  Rebel, Levels, Antisocial

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• There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

  Rachel Cusk

  Book, Justice, Worry

  "Rachel Cusk: 'Divorce is only darkness'". Interview with Katharine Viner, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• A lot of artists that I've met let me know they're huge fans of mine.

  DMX

  Fans, Mets, Let Me

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• I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.

  DMX

  Appreciate, Sony, Feels

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• Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Architecture, Tricky

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• How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.

  Maya Lin

  Children, Home, Scary

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• Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.

  Marilyn Manson

  Optimistic, Nihilist, I Can

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• I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.

  Shirley Manson

  Thinking, Views, Different

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• It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.

  John Hawkes

  Real, Nice, People

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• When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Rolling, Stones, Journalism

  "Annie Leibovitz Puts Down Camera, Talks". Interview with Dave Weich, www.powells.com. November 1999.

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• As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.

  Hunter Hayes

  Thinking, Expectations, Care

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• I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.

  Hunter Hayes

  Black, Development, Keith

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• I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

  Annie Lennox

  Mother, Hats, Different

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• Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

  Annie Lennox

  Taken, Years, Creative

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• When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.

  Lauryn Hill

  Believe, School, Order

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I hadn't been a singer, I might have been a photographer or an artist. But it's singing I love. I sing all the time, and I feel really good that I've expressed myself.

  Annie Lennox

  Singing, Singers, Might

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