Great Artist Quotes - Page 4

• Life has to keep going, so you can either be a victim the rest of your life and let it drag you down into drugs and alcohol and depression or you can turn it into something good, fun even, you know, and I tell young people who are going through depression that this might be the most important time of your life. This might be what makes you a great artist later on.

  Jeff Ross

  Fun, Artist, People

  "Having Thick Skin Is A 'Survival Technique,' Says Comic Jeff Ross". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, weku.fm.

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• The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

  Al Pacino

  Artist, Play, Interesting

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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• Not everyone would choose to pay the costly price of being a great artist. To many, the riches of life are quite different. A skill in day-to-day living which adds up to a happy, love-filled life is success. You can have this and other riches, too. The choice is yours.

  W. Clement Stone

  Artist, Skills, Choices

  Source: www.barnesandnoble.com

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• [Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

  Jon Gordon

  Artist, Woods, Language

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• Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".

  Yasumasa Morimura

  Artist, Past, Our World

  Source: u-in-u.com

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• I think being an artist is having the courage to be original. Many great artists, including Picasso, have all been influenced by the great master paintings... And then finally, they leap, they take off... they become themselves. Then it looks like they just came out of nowhere. Just like 'Pow!'

  James Rosenquist

  Thinking, Artist, Looks

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The influence that Oakland has on my sound is about 90%. There's so many different elements to Oakland. Of course you have the street elements, but then you also have the culture and there's so much culture around. It's a competitive city, it's full of just great artists and talent. It gave me the confidence, the passion, the realness I try my hardest to portray, so it has had about 90% influence on me.

  Adrian Marcel

  Passion, Artist, Oakland

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Art, Quality, Mesmerizing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• A great artist transforms our world, removes scales from our eyes, plugs from our ears, gloves from our fingertips and teaches us to perceive reality differently.

  John Edgar Wideman

  Eye, Artist, Reality

  "John Edgar Wideman Against the World" by Thomas Chatterton Williams, www.nytimes.com. January 26, 2017.

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• The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more.

  Frank Stella

  Integrity, Mean, Artist

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I'm doing what great artists before me did, like Judy Garland, Sammy Davis, Eddie Cantor. I'm doing what they were doing, not at their level yet, but one day I will be. I'm just happy to be in their company.

  Mike Tyson

  Artist, One Day, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I consider my work great, as I am a great artist.

  Pola Negri

  Artist, Great Art

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

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• Galás is a great artist with a very powerful voice.

  Marina Abramovic

  Powerful, Artist, Voice

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• In general, you have great artists who have died far too early and who have left great cultural impact. If you look at people like Vincent van Gogh or Jean-Michel Basquiat-there's a long, long list of artists who have died in tragic circumstances, and far, far too early.

  Simon de Pury

  Artist, Impact, Long

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now, when you look at somebody, it's not simply, 'Are you like me or unlike me? Has your culture produced great artists? What are your rituals?' It's: 'Is your culture safe or not? Will it produce terrorists?'

  Homi K. Bhabha

  Artist, Culture, Looks

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• The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

  Renee Fleming

  Communication, Artist, Voice

  Renee Fleming (2005). “The Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer”, p.151, Penguin

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• The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.

  Andrew Loog Oldham

  Artist, Great Art, Products

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• I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

  Taylor Swift

  Hero, Thinking, Artist

  "Taylor Swift: 100 Miles an Hour and Not Slowing Down". Interview with Annie Reuter, www.marieclaire.com. June 22, 2009.

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• To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.

  Lou Reed

  Memories, Crazy, Artist

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• Each film has its processes. It doesn't mean that all animated films have to be like "Boy and the World," but creators have to have total freedom. There are films that are born with the purpose to sell. They are still admirable films with great artists and great visuals, but we wanted to use a more radical approach to create art. That's what we tried to do.

  Alex Abreu

  Art, Mean, Boys

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Soul music has so many great artists who put their thing down. That's important.

  Raekwon

  Artist, Soul, Important

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I think that most great artists who are extremely known, as I am, would intimidate a lot of people. I don't want to do that to people, but I know I do.

  Ray Charles

  Thinking, Artist, People

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em.

  John Lennon

  Artist, Ems, Great Art

  Jann Wenner, John Lennon (2001). “Lennon Remembers”, p.148, Verso

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• I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

  Joe Perry

  Artist, People, Gone

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