Adrian Tomine Quotes, Artist Quotes, Past Quotes

I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."

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I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

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The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

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All artists need a room of their own

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The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about. I'm sensing something and I'm going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted - Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.

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No artist will tolerate the world for one second as it is.

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A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Artist Quotes , Immature Quotes

This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

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You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

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Tags : William Blake Quotes , Hate Quotes , Artist Quotes

If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.

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The habits of every animal are, at least in the eyes of man, constantly similar in all ages. But the habits, the clothes, the words and the dwelling of a prince, a banker, an artist, a bourgeois, a priest and a pauper, are wholly dissimilar and change at the will of civilizations.

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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.

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A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

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My process in making a music video is pretty much a formula of talking to the artist. I've never made a video where I didn't talk to the artist before I wrote the treatment. Basically, I enter into it knowing we are collaborators.

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All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Art Quotes , Artist Quotes

Whatever obstacle comes your way, you gotta be prepared to jump over it! And I think that's what separates the legends from the regular artists. It's all in how you manage that success, and how you deal with the controversy when it actually comes.

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The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Artist Quotes , Creative Quotes