Artist Quotes - Page 29

• I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

  Chris Martin

  Song, Writing, Band

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• You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Struggle, Thinking, Two

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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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• If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.

  Pablo Picasso

  Paint, Hundred, Theme

  Pablo Picasso, Daniel Robbins (1979). “Picasso's Vollard Suite”

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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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• Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.

  Pablo Picasso

  Interesting, Matter, Masters

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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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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• Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

  Golda Meir

  Storm, Bouquets, Trimming

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• When you start with a portrait and search for a pure form, a clear volume, through successive eliminations, you arrive inevitably at the egg. Likewise, starting with the egg and following the same process in reverse, one finishes with the portrait.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eggs, Portraits, Starting

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• We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

  Pablo Picasso

  Class, Distinction, Concerned

  Elizabeth Cowling, Pablo Picasso (2002). “Picasso: style and meaning”, Phaidon Press

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• I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about.

  Pink

  Song, Badass, Mean

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

  Michelangelo

  Evil, Heaven, Sin

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• Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.

  Michelangelo

  Skins, Easy, Carving

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• Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

  Michelangelo

  Males, Divine, Ifs

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• The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

  Michelangelo

  Hands, Sculpture, Shells

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• The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

  Michelangelo

  Block, Hands, White

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• The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.

  Henry Miller

  Horizon, Literature, Sin

  Henry Miller (1961). “The Cosmological Eye”, p.168, New Directions Publishing

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• Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

  Henry Miller

  Art, Mean, Way

  Henry Miller (1941). “The Wisdom of the Heart”, p.24, New Directions Publishing

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• I have to have music playing constantly. It creates the tone and mood for anything you are doing. I specifically love rock, and Jimi Hendrix is one of my favorite artists. My favorite song is 'Red House,' because it's heavy on the blues.

  Marisa Miller

  Song, Rocks, House

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• My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.

  Mike Mills

  Real, Thinking, Hip Hop

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• I understand that artists and critics make a big deal over the Grammys. But when I go to my shows and I'm selling out arenas in London, and when I'm in Australia and Japan, there aren't any Grammys there. There are human beings who I've touched. There are human beings who are inspired by me, who I love dearly. And that's what my career is based on.

  Nicki Minaj

  Japan, Careers, Australia

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• I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I am of her. She's one of my favorite artists of all time... She's shaped a generation of singers.

  Nicki Minaj

  Nice, Fans, Generations

  "‘American Idol’: Nicki Minaj, Mariah Carey Address Their Feud, Insist ‘We’re All Professionals’" by Laura Prudom, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 08, 2013.

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• I'm a rapper... Gaga's a fantastic artist, you know, she paved her way. She's opened her own lane. But I think that I have my own lane. And we never cross. Ever. So, you know, I really don't get the comparison anymore. Our music doesn't sound the same. Our stage presence is not the same. I just can't see the similarities.

  Nicki Minaj

  Thinking, Rapper, Sound

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• My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, 'How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?'

  Nicki Minaj

  People, Goal, Hip Hop

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