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“I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.”

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Author:Faith Evans

“I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.”

Artist Greater Hunger Suspects Distraction

Author:J. D. Salinger

“Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“If there is anything the artist or a true work of art teaches us, it is that variety and complexity really increase the unity, and that to achieve unity within a great variety of complexity is a greater achievement and more satisfying piece of art than to achieve unity with just a few elements, which is relatively easily achieved.”

Ifs Art Artist Teach Greater Pieces Achieve Elements Achievement Increase Unity Variety Complexity Works Of Art Satisfying

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.”

Knows Artist Greater Ought Thousand Painful Painful Death

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“The student's ambition should be to become a painter's painter, rather than a popular painter. The approbation of fellow artists based on sympathy and understanding is manifestly better than the fickle or fast homage of the greater public.”

Should Artist Understanding Greater Students Ambition Fellows Painter Homage Fickle

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“I am in no sense of the word a great artist, not even a great animator; I have always had men working for me whose skills were greater than my own. I am an idea man.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“You cannot deny your origins: I love Kirchner more than Matisse, although Matisse was a greater artist. That isn't to do with nationality. It's a stronger feeling.”

Feelings Artist Greater Stronger Deny Patriotism Nationality Matisse

Author:Georg Baselitz

“The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater.”

Ifs Has Beens Made Use Artist Greater Effects Masters Discovery Made It Great Art Great Artist Impressionists

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.”

Reality Artist Brain Greater Substitutes Erase

Author:Semir Zeki

“l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.”

Wells I Can Artist Suffering Greater Atheism Painting Without God

Author:Vincent Van Gogh

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.”

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Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.”

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Author:John Hench