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“The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.”

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Book:The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.”

Artist Streets Survival Staying

Book:Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages

Source: Leave Any Information at the Signal: Writings, Interviews, Bits, Pages

“Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.”

Age Artist Survival Suspects Acceptable Starving Starving Artist

Author:Robert Genn

“For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.”

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Book:The good word and other words

Source: The good word and other words

“Humor is everything. Everything. Usually the negatives turned out to be the most positive for me. In the music industry, any other artist would have looked at the situation I was in and thought, "Oh man, this is not for me." I looked at it more like Darwin exploring the Galápagos Islands. You know - survival of the fittest.”

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Author:Pitbull

“A lot of people thought I got famous as a studio artist, then decided to cash in on it. But it actually was just a matter of survival for many years, and I felt it was really important for me to be able to say whatever I wanted with my street art and fine art.”

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Author:Shepard Fairey

“I always say artists must broaden their research. I go to casinos, fly fishing, to show apartments in new residential buildings, watch fairs, the football, ikebana courses, survival expeditions, Dungeons & Dragons nights, and it doesn't matter which of these I personally want to do — that is my job. That’s true research; otherwise, it would be a bit like masturbating.”

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Author:Ryan Gander

“Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.”

Ifs Art Different Artist Survival Art Is Realms Integrating Renounce Profane Omnipotent

Book:Prisms

Source: Prisms

“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”

Ifs Kind Art Whole Stories Lasts Artist Kindness Survival Art Is Confession Anguish Vomiting

Author:James A. Baldwin

“When members of a society wish to secure that society's rich heritage they cherish their arts and respect their artists. The esteem with which we regard the multiple cultures offered in our country enhances our possibilities for healthy survival and continued social development.”

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Author:Maya Angelou

“We need artists to help us come together and share our voices and build community around powerful issues concerning our roles in the world and our planet's survival. Compassion must be translated into action.”

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Author:Natasha Mayers

“If some people can imagine that a person they love is alive in another world, why can't I imagine Maurice is alive in this one An artist is a person who uses art to run away from reality. It's not wrong-it's survival. There's nothing wrong with me creating a world in which Maurice is alive.”

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Author:Robin Gibb

“I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.”

Thinking Ends Artist Strong Force Survival Very Strong Recessions

Author:Mark Edward

“I realized that the artists who managed to fight through this recession have a better shot at longevity than most. The recession was a test of your resolve and passion. I think as we come out of these rough times we will be more adept at survival and will have gained the skills necessary to make a long fruitful artistic career. There will still be those that fade away but we are more likely to grow and bend with the times and prosper.”

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Author:Mark Edward

“Life and love inspire me. I think reinventing yourself is vital to your survival as an artist and a human being. I know it’s cliché to say about me at this point, but it’s true. My curiosity definitely is the driving force in my life and career. When you stop learning, engaging and growing, you’re dead.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone