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“I'm not trying to save the world. As a musician and artist, it just ain't me.”

World Trying Artist Musician Save The World

“I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.”

Want Feelings Dream Artist Deals Style Acceptance Naturalism Irrationality

Author:Irvin Kershner

“Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.”

Real Moments Artist Crisis Financial Collectors Financial Crisis True Artists Moment Of Truth

Author:Victor Pinchuk

“A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.”

Art Artist Asks Grows Taste Obsession Painter Suitable

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.”

Artist Universe Focus Mets Visionaries Denmark Iceland

Author:Victor Pinchuk

“My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.”

Artist Surroundings

Author:Lucian Freud

“The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh.”

Persons Artist Given Objects Flesh Auras

Book:Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

Source: Lucian Freud: naked portraits : Werke der 40er bis 90er Jahre

“I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.”

Giving Trying Art I Can Remember Artist Felt Difficult Fascination Yeats

Author:Lucian Freud

“I love Fun. They're great guys. They're incredible artists and musicians.”

Artist Guy Fun Musician Incredibles Great Guy

Author:Janelle Monae

“I grew up with artists.”

Artist Grew Grew Up

Author:Jason Momoa

“I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.”

Artist House

Author:PSY

“There's a lot of variety of musicians in Korea. I cannot say they are the best in the world, but I can say that Korean artists are really dynamic artists, so I am going to show that from now on.”

World I Can Shows Artist Musician Variety Korea Korean

Author:PSY

“Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.”

Artist Attitude Style Good Attitude Gangnam Style

Author:PSY

“As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.”

Persons Artist Creation Very Positive Positive Person

Author:PSY

“The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.”

Want Artist Principles Prove International Korea Korean Basic Principles Showcase

Author:PSY

“There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.”

Has Beens Bigs Inspiration Artist Performers

Author:Janet Jackson

“All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video.”

World Country Artist Huge Marketing Video Genre True Artists Huge Changes

Author:Sonu Nigam

“The decision as to when to photograph, the actual click of the shutter, is partly controlled from the outside, by the flow of life, but it also comes from the mind and the heart of the artist. The photograph is his vision of the world and expresses, however subtly, his values and convictions.”

World Mind Heart Artist Values Decision Vision Flow Photograph Conviction Controlled Clicks Shutters

Author:Paul Strand

“Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.”

Way Giving Ends Artist Lows Video Totems

Author:Bill Viola

“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.”

Thinking Knows Use Age Used Artist House Materials Computer Paint Incredibles Oil Command Range Household Items Computer Systems Pollock

Author:Bill Viola

“I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.”

World Ends Age Used Artist Company Starting Video 1960s Sony

Author:Bill Viola

“Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.”

Light Remember Faces Artist Fall Water Can Do Rooms Objects Flow Paint Candlelight

Author:Janet Fitch

“I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.”

Artist Hell Bent Cartoon

Author:Seth MacFarlane

“Magical realism allows an artist like myself to inject layers of meaning without being obvious. In American culture, where there is freedom of expression, this approach may seem forced, unnecessary and misunderstood. But this system of communication has become very Iranian.”

May Seems Artist Culture Expression Communication Approach Obvious Layers Realism Unnecessary Misunderstood American Culture Magical Realism Freedom Of Expression Iranian Magic Realism

Author:Shirin Neshat

“A true artist is an ugly man.”

Men Artist Ugly True Artists Ugly Man

Author:Osamu Dazai

“To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.”

Wells Artist Goal Weak Ultimate Departure Ultimate Goal

Author:Osamu Dazai

“Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.”

People World Jobs Artist Scientist Noticer

Author:Frank Oppenheimer

“We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the system. We can take risks, but if you want to go to the peak of your consciousness, you may very well find yourself alone. Even if you know how to translate what you see, maybe only ten people will be able to understand what you tell. But, if you have faith in your vision, and retell it again and again, you will start noticing that, after a time, more people will begin to catch up with you.”

People Ifs Knows Want Wells May Able Artist Consciousness Vision Know How Risk Ten Finding Yourself Have Faith Translate Again And Again Not Alone Noticing

Author:Jean Giraud

“A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.”

Artist Letters Scripts Comic Love Letter

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.”

“I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.”

Thinking Kind Stories Artist

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 - their vibe is slightly different from all the pop stuff on 'Glee,' although some do fall into that genre.”

Different Artist Fall Stuff Son My Favorite Pops Genre Mars Folds Jason Eric Glee Favorite Artist Colonizing Mars Maroon Maroon 5

Author:Grant Gustin

“People need to put my music in a perspective where they use other established artists from the past, and almost all the names I see related to my music are great musicians.”

People Needs Use Past Artist Names Perspective Musician Related Great Music Great Musician

Author:Sondre Lerche

“As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.”

Long Artist

Author:Victoria Legrand

“I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.”

People Kind Desire Artist Careers Records Consistent

Author:Rico Love

“I watch artists say they wrote all these songs and don't mention anybody else who was involved, and that's fine. I don't expect an artist to give me credit. I know that they're gonna take the credit for everything. But, it's my job to give myself that exposure and not make excuses, not grow bitter.”

Knows Giving Jobs Artist Song Grows Watches Fine Involved Give Me Excuse Credit Bitter Exposure

Author:Rico Love

“There's a bunch of people who sit around and make excuses for themselves and get upset with artists, but you already know what this is - it's an ego-driven business.”

People Knows Artist Ego Excuse Driven Bunch Upset

Author:Rico Love

“When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.”

People Ifs Writing Artist Stuff Records Focused Touring

Author:Rico Love

“I've always considered myself a nonfiction artist.”

Artist Nonfiction

Author:Jim Sanborn

“I get a lot of 'Oh, you've been gone.' I wasn't gone. Just because you didn't see me doesn't mean I wasn't working and collecting checks. I just wasn't singing and doing videos. I do a lot of other things, like I said, like writing scripts and stuff like that. I write for other artists.”

Writing Mean Said Artist Stuff Gone Singing Scripts Checks Video Collecting Writing Scripts

Author:Tionne Watkins

“The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.”

Facts Eye Artist Dies Turns Imagination Mere Details Being True Rumor Celestial

Book:Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

Source: Bohemia: Digging the Roots of Cool

“I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'”

Needs Today Artist Hours Four Sitting Okay Sitting Down

Author:Martha Wainwright

“As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.”

Doe Real Jobs Artist Paid Day Jobs Real Artists

Author:Black Francis

“For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.”

Writing Artist Performances Eggs Chickens Live Performance

Author:Black Francis

“Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.”

Thinking World Art Self Artist Consciousness Expression Active Contemporary Works Of Art Ongoing Self Consciousness Nihilist

Author:Leonard Baskin

“I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.”

Thinking Feels Artist Elements Meaningless Nihilism

Author:Leonard Baskin

“I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types.”

Artist Type Bohemian

Author:Spencer Dryden

“It's the honest point of view of an artist: You have to please.I'd like viewers to come away from my films unsure whether they've understood them. I want to leave them wondering.”

Want Film Artist Views Wonder Honest Please Understood Point Of View Viewers Unsure

Author:Jean-Pierre Melville

“What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.”

Firsts Looks Kind Art Artist Pieces Emotional Intellectual First Time Combination Something New

Author:Cheech Marin

“Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!”

Moments Artist Actors Loses Talking Performances

Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson

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