Artist Quotes - Page 35

• Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John.

  Boris Pasternak

  Art, Two, Revelations

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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

  Art, Lust, Crystals

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• Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

  Cesare Pavese

  Monk, States, Bourgeois

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.171, Transaction Publishers

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• I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was doing stuff beyond what other writers and artists were doing. It was a step beyond Mad.

  Harvey Pekar

  Mad, Cleveland, Looks

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.104, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Photography, Jobs, Thinking

  Interview with Rachel Maddow, www.nbcnews.com. March 12, 2010.

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• At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

  Katy Perry

  Block, Female, Labels

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• I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.

  Liz Phair

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

  Tom Stoppard

  Writing, Oxygen, Ideas

  "'You can't help being what you write'". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2008.

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• We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

  Jock Sturges

  Birthday, Age, Bombs

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

  Gloria Swanson

  Real, Directors, Agents

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• I like to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' when I'd doing cardio. But, sometimes I do need good music to get me moving. I like high energy songs by artists like Justin Timberlake and Rihanna.

  Alison Sweeney

  Song, Moving, Energy

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• Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• There's so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it's reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She's been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

  Taylor Swift

  Reading, Example, Female

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• Everything we do helps the new artists in the long run.

  Ice T

  Running, Long, Helping

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Believe, History

  "International Herald Tribune" Newspaper, September 15, 1992.

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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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• As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

  Serj Tankian

  Song, Writing, Challenges

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

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• I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.

  Serj Tankian

  Heart, Thinking, Vision

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

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• I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.

  Rod Taylor

  Wisdom, Feet, One Day

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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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• Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.

  Tinie Tempah

  Style, Nicknames, Aliases

  "One last thing... Tinie Tempah". Interview with Rich Pelley, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Writing, Reality, Fiction

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• The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.246, Delphi Classics

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• 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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