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“I started playing guitar and writing songs when I was 15. I think what mainly sparked my interest was just the fact that I grew up listening to Cheryl King, Joni Mitchell, and James Taylor, and was just always inspired by that sort of organic art, and organic songs and just very natural songwriting that came out of some of those artists.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.”

May Artist Interest Responsibility

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings, 50th Anniversary Edition

“Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.”

Should Artist Stuff Interest

Author:David Hockney

“The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.”

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Author:Pierre Bonnard

“The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.”

Whole Artist Interest Fields Perception Highest Details

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“It is in an artist's real interest to congratulate herself more often: not out of narcissism, but in her role as her own dear friend and advocate.”

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Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“It is the ability to determine consciously what it is that interests him, and why, that differentiates the artist from the art student.”

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Book:Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

Source: Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting

“As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.”

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Author:Robert Genn

“In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that the content and form of a play or a film scenario was of little importance to us. What mattered was was the opportunity, which came so seldom to our folks ... Later I came to understand that the Negro artist could not view the matter simply in terms of of his individual interests, and that he had a responsibility to his people who rightfully resented the traditional stereotyped portrayals of Negros on stage and screen.”

“I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without. Although I often end up acquiring two or three works by an artist who particularly interests me, it's more for fear that a single one might get too lonely.”

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Author:Michael Audain

“I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.”

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Author:James Marsters

“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

“And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model.”

Artist Next Interest Models Copies Accurate Hung

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

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

“Managers all over the world will go crazy when their artists are not touting the party line and making things pretty in the way that they're supposed to, but it's different when your manager is your husband. It's contrary to your soul. That commercial interest presses in upon your whole personal life.”

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Author:Liz Garbus

“When literature becomes overly erudite, it means that interest in the art has gone and curiosity about the artist is what's important. It becomes a kind of idolatry.”

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Book:Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

Source: Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations

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