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“You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.”

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Author:John Lasseter

“It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a new recording every two years. They perform, tour, record, and collaborate constantly. Uprise.fm will not only make these rare and unique recordings available, we will ensure that the artists are fairly compensated for this work.”

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Author:Daniel Lanois

“I have been given a unique role to play on this earth: given to me by a life filled with sickness, ill-starred circumstances and my profession as an artist. It is a life that contains nothing that resembles happiness, and moreover does not even desire happiness.”

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Book:Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch

Source: Encounter in Space: Double Images in the Graphic Art of Edvard Munch

“It is vital for artists to nurture and protect that which will make their vision unique.”

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Author:Jane Fulton Alt

“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.”

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Author:David Luiz

“In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system?”

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Author:Sara Genn

“I am not the avant-garde. I am the artist who comes after the advancing guard. I am more concerned with continuity of ideas and tradition than in inventing a unique imagery.”

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Author:Nathan Oliveira

“Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.”

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Author:John Kurtz

“Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.”

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Book:The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See

Source: The Treehouse: Eccentric Wisdom from My Father on How to Live, Love, and See

“Art lives and dies in the unique heart of he who carries it, just as all feelings only live and expand in the souls of those who feel them. There is no history of art -- there is the history of artists.”

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Author:Marianne von Werefkin