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“Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that.”

Firsts Long Artist Wonder Gone Influence Havens Long Time Guitar My Favorite Really Long Favorite Artist

Author:Jonny Lang

“In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.”

Ifs Artist Childhood Havens Amount Twenties Trauma Your Children Complexity

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.”

Knows Age Today Artist Rich Havens Ancient Entertainers

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Artists have wild desires and a terrible hunger to achieve... Without it they haven't the juice for striving or loving. But desire also can make them greedy and turn dreams into unrealizable obsessions.”

Dream Desire Artist Turns Achieve Havens Terrible Strive Hunger Obsession Greedy Juice

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.”

Wells Said Artist Havens Green Fruit Sublime Limes Citrus

Author:Walter Darby Bannard

“After being an Impressionist, Cubist, and an Abstract Expressionist, I was influenced by realistic artists, including Andrew Wyeth in the late '50s, and I haven't changed my style since.”

Artist Style Havens Changed Late Including Abstract Realistic Andrew Impressionists I Haven't Changed

Author:Robert Bateman

“Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.”

Art Artist Havens Students Generosity Generous Colour Works Of Art Palette Nickels Squeezing Art Students

Author:John French Sloan

“How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.”

Different Artist Interesting Havens Painting Finishing

Author:Peter Doig

“It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.”

Littles Done Artist Havens Scary Not Sure

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer.”

Artist Found Havens Curiosity Intense Interviewers

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.”

People Thinking Whole Home Dream Would Be Artist House Havens Cameras Paint Piano Capture Efficiency Editing Equipment Supplies Microphones Recorders

Author:Will Smith