Artist Quotes - Page 34

• They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

  Pablo Picasso

  Eye, Order, Painter

  Neil Cox, Pablo Picasso, Deborah Povey (1995). “A Picasso bestiary”, Academy Editions Ltd

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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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• Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Human Nature, Scholar

  "A biological understanding of human nature". Edge Interview, www.edge.org. September 18, 2017.

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• I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

  Steven Pinker

  Art, Believe, Thinking

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• New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

  Jackson Pollock

  Airplane, Mean, Past

  Elizabeth Frank, Jackson Pollock (1983). “Jackson Pollock”, Abbeville Pr

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• Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Life, Giving, Confusion

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.88, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

  Natalie Portman

  Jobs, Fun, Hiking

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• But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Should, One Thing

  Ezra Pound (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.253, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't think that I'm a top 40 artist in any way. So I don't think I'm that mainstream.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Thinking, Way, Mainstream

  "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. April 29, 2005.

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• I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.

  Harold Prince

  Able, Great Artist

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• There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.

  Prince

  Law, Records, Permission

  "Prince Wants Cover Songs Outlawed: What's the Best Cover Song of All Time?". www.foxnews.com. April 26, 2011.

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• Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art.

  Questlove

  Art, Hip Hop, Hips

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• The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Art, People, World

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• I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.

  Raekwon

  Different, Albums, Singles

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• With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Legacy, Needs, Labels

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• Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Mean, Rocks, Roots

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• I didn't have to be a pop singer with a certain look. When I started, there was really a revolution in natural artists with blues and folk artists crossing over; otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to get started.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Looks, Singers, Able

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• I'm sure I would have been considered a more significant artist if I was a singer-songwriter. It's just not the way I roll. I love being a curator and a musicologist. People write me letters and thank me for turning them on to Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace, and that's partly my job this time around.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Jobs, Writing, People

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• Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

  Paul Rand

  Arrows, Elements, Bullets

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• The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists.

  Herbert Read

  Military, Civilization, Achievement

  Sir Herbert Edward Read (1964). “Selected writings: poetry and criticism”

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• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  Lance Reddick

  Stars, Rocks, Black

  "'Wire' and 'Fringe' star makes music, too". Interview with John Carucci, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. January 10, 2011.

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• All of the films that I've made are about the country I live in and grew up in... And I think if you're going to put an artist's eye to it, you're going to put a critical eye to it. I've always been interested in the gray area that exists between the black and white, or the red and blue, and that's where complexity lies.

  Robert Redford

  Country, Lying, Eye

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• I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.

  Lou Reed

  Art, Thinking, Students

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