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“True artists know how to cut their subjects open and bleed them onto the canvas.”

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Book:The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

Source: The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent”

Art Artist Oscar Wilde True Artists

Author:Oscar Wilde

“I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.”

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Author:Haley Reinhart

“All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation.”

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Book:To the director and playwright

Source: To the director and playwright

“I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.”

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Author:Randy Houser

“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

“Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists.”

Real Moments Artist Crisis Financial Collectors Financial Crisis True Artists Moment Of Truth

Author:Victor Pinchuk

“All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video.”

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Author:Sonu Nigam

“A true artist is an ugly man.”

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Author:Osamu Dazai

“Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself.”

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Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.”

Real Enough Shows Light Artist Creativity Skills Ideals True Artists

Author:Roger Scruton

“The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence.”

Artist Sane Tolerate Collectors True Artists Insincerity Impudence

Author:Walter J. Phillips

“In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child.”

Children Artist Pure Innocence True Artists

Author:Lawren Harris

“Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.”

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Author:Tom Peters

“They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that.”

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Author:Daryl Hannah

“What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality.”

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Author:John Edgar Park

“A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.”

Shows Artist Please True Artists

Author:Christian Morgenstern

“I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wants you to do this, your fans want you to do this, your family, you can't concentrate on your work. It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up. That's why I have so much respect for people like Dylan and Neil Young and Tom Waits, because they keep at it. I have a new respect for a true artist.”

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Author:Robert Hilburn

“Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.”

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Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.”

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Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.”

Thinking Knows Wells Littles Two Different Today Artist Wish Goal Decision Attention Path Honest Comfort Crowds Better Life Divergent True Artists Different Paths Well Wishes

Author:Tennessee Williams

“Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“The true artist can only labor con amore.”

Art Artist Labor True Artists

Author:Victor Hugo

“Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.”

Should Mother Artist Endeavor True Artists

Book:A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

Source: A Brighter Coming Day: A Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Reader

“How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.”

“Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again.”

People Knows Writing Moments Artist Stage Creation Musician Studios Artistic That Moment Closest True Artists Artistic Creation

Author:Richard Ashcroft

“I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.”

People Feels Artist Song Girl Seeing Singers Entertainers True Artists

Author:Alessia Cara

“True artists scorn nothing.”

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Book:Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

Source: Speech of Acceptance Upon the Award of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Delivered in Stockholm on the Tenth of December, Nineteen Hundred and Fifty-seven. [Translated by Justin O'Brien

“As with any true artist, change is the only constant.”

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Author:Tony MacAlpine

“It has always been my belief that the true artist, like the true scientist, is a researcher using materials and techniques to dig into the truth and meaning of the world in which he himself lives; and what he creates, or better perhaps, brings back, are the objective results of his explorations. The measure of his talent--of his genius, if you will--is the richness he finds in such a life's voyage of discovery and the effectiveness with which he is able to embody it through his chosen medium.”

“Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.”

Should Able Artist Secret Emotion Stage Should Have Spectators Transmit True Artists

Author:Anna Pavlova

“A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody.”

Persons Artist Stealing True Artists

Author:Pablo Picasso

“A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.”

Should Artist Dies Failing Quitting Being An Artist True Artists

Author:Christian Keiber

“A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.”

Giving Reality Artist Birth True Artists

Author:Plato

“A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.”

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Book:The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Source: The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt is awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”

“Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan.”

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Author:Orson Welles

“Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.”

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Author:Dolly Parton

“I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that.”

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Author:Cheyenne Kimball

“Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.”

Writing Artist Satisfied True Artists

Author:Andrew McAleer

“Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.”

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Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and done and done. The role of a true artist is to present their own unique vision, and so it has always made sense to me that works of art should be radical.”

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Author:Porochista Khakpour

“I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?”

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Author:Paul Weller

“My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.”

“Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.”

World Way Artist Gone True Artists

Author:Quincy Jones

“A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.”

Art Form Artist Turns Married True Artists

Author:St. Lucia

“The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities.”

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Author:Catherine Camus

“If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make.”

Ifs Artist Careers Worry Building Approach Majors Trade Labels True Artists Trade Offs

Author:Raheem Jarbo

“I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses.”

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Author:Ice Cube