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• When an artist leaves his work to amuse people, he loses his time and their respect. If people are to be amused by artists, it must be by employing them in their legitimate occupation.

  William Morris Hunt

  People, Occupation, Amused

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• Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.

  Janis Ian

  Song, Humble, Hard Times

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• The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Song, Hard Work, Writing

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• The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Literature, World, Touring

  "In the land of memory: Kazuo Ishiguro remembers when". Interview with Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• Sometimes you have to be a diva. All the artists I admire from Madonna to Whitney to Mariah have all been called divas. If you are strong, if you have vision, if you are an artist, you have to do what you believe in. And if you get called a diva for it, then so what.

  Jessie J

  Strong, Believe, Vision

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

  Jessie J

  Bonus, Wanted, Songwriters

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.

  LL Cool J

  Creativity, Listening, Hendrix

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• I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

  LL Cool J

  Careers, People, Able

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• When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.

  Curtis Jackson

  Song, Tape, Firsts

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• I have a lot of tattoos. My first tattoo I had when I was a teenager was just a little heart. I am very friendly with a great artist, Scott Campbell, and I started going to him to get tattoos. I'm very spontaneous about what I get.

  Marc Jacobs

  Tattoo, Teenager, Heart

  "Marc Jacobs Reveals The Naked Truth". GQ interview, gq.co.za. September 7, 2015.

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• Marc Jacobs is full of creative people and Louis Vuitton is again a name on the door, a name that has existed for many years but I'm a collaborator there and I bring in other people, other artists and I work with a great creative design team.

  Marc Jacobs

  Team, Doors, Years

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• I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

  Mick Jagger

  Creativity, Creative, Way

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• Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.

  Jewel

  Anomalies, Able, Kind

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• How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.

  Philip Johnson

  Art, Wish, Doe

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• I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.

  Joe Jonas

  Men, Thinking, One Direction

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• I have inherited two of the most important brands in hip-hop, Def Jam and Roc-A-Fella. Reid and Universal Music Group have given me the opportunity to manage the companies I have contributed to my whole career. I feel this is a giant step for me and the entire artist community.

  Jay-Z

  Opportunity, Careers, Two

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• It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

  Pauline Kael

  Patience, Art, Waiting

  Pauline Kael (1994). “For keeps”, E P Dutton

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• There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Doctors, Choices, Lawyer

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• I think my iTunes is a kind of strange and embarrassing mix of show tunes and artists that I have no perception of whether or not they're huge or not, you know? I'm the kind of person who doesn't realize that The Arcade Fire is a big deal, but then I expect everybody to know Cocoon, and people tend to not know Cocoon.

  Anna Kendrick

  Thinking, Fire, People

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• If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.

  Kesha

  Important, Want, Ifs

  "Changing the Face (and Sound) of Rap". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. December 23, 2009.

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• Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.

  Alicia Keys

  Political, Best Work

  "I am an anarchist, says Alicia Keys". Blender Magazine Interview, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2008.

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• When you're from the East Coast or you're from the South, people expect you to sound a certain way. So if you don't sound that way, people won't label you as that type of artist. For me, I had a whole new lane to create for myself being from Pittsburgh and being a Midwest artist.

  Wiz Khalifa

  People, Pittsburgh, Way

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• Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

  Gustav Klimt

  Looks, Want, Significant

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• I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Opportunity, Magazines, Proud

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• As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.

  Jeff Koons

  Art, Dialogue, Wanted

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