Oscar Wilde Quotes, Artist Quotes

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

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It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.

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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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If you are a cabaret artist and you are mostly singing other people's songs, you're asking them to rethink a song, listen to it in a different way. The most impact you can have while asking them to re-listen to a song is if it's a song they know very well.

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The role of the artist is to not look away.

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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

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A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.

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An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

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I feel ever so strongly that an artist must be nourished by his passions and his despairs. These things alter an artist whether for the good or the better or the worse. It must alter him. The feelings of desperation and unhappiness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappiness stretch your whole sensibility.

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I'm not a writer, but today I think you have to be everything. As an artist you have an obligation to let people know what is on your mind and why you're doing this.

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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

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I never really listen to what people say. My thing is that my favorite artists are artists that are theatrical. Obviously when you are doing a recording, things aren't gonna translate as over-the-top.

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Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

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I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

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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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The true artist can only labor con amore.

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

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Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.

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Warhol came from an ordinary family and he had a profound understanding about capitalism and material culture. He was probably one of the few Western artists - or artists from the United States - that could be considered a true product of his time and brought out that kind of spirit of the culture.

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