Artist Quotes - Page 40

• I have tons of regrets, but I think that's one of the reasons that push people to create things. Out of their angst, their regret, comes the best from artists, painters and writers.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Regret, Thinking, People

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• I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Believe, Phones, Years

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• A lot of actors, and artists in general, never feel secure in love. They always feel everything's going to be taken away from them, professionally and personally; they're extremely emotional and volatile.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Taken, Emotional, Actors

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• It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

  Paul Stanley

  Inspiration, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "PAUL STANLEY Slams JANN WENNER For KISS 'Rock Hall' Snub". www.blabbermouth.net. May 20, 2013.

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• The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.

  Paul Stanley

  Art, Thinking, Hands

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• The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.

  Gertrude Stein

  Art, Differences, People

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Ida: A Novel”, p.326, Yale University Press

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• The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  Wallace Stevens

  Art, Real, Play

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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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• What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them.

  Jock Sturges

  Children, Real, Sight

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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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• I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.

  Taylor Swift

  Thinking, People, Want

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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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• 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 have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.

  Serj Tankian

  Expression, Politician, Avenues

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

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• You listen to Bob Dylan and you can't help but think of the 60s, it's very relational and if artists are true artists and not just mere musicians they need to be truthful because the music doesn't come from them, it comes from the universe and it's to be shared. At best, we're skilled presenters, and I say that at best.

  Serj Tankian

  Thinking, Musician, Needs

  "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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• 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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• I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Thinking, Brave, Actors

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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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