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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

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The artist who could disentangle the subtle soul of the image from its mesh of defining circumstances most exactly and 're-embody' it in artistic circumstances chosen as the most exact for it in its new office, he was the supreme artist.

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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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The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points the other way, as a rule. Two blankly opposing morals, the artist's and the tale's. Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper functions of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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An artist chooses his subjects: that is the way he praises.

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God and other artists are always a little obscure.

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We have a few artists that seem to sell enough to pay back what it costs to make a record.

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If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

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Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

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Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

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You really can't be a good artist if you can't say what you really feel. And people may be offended, but, you know, that's how you feel, and that is your right, and that is your gift as well.

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Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

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There are selections so acute that they come to define a place, with the result that we can no longer travel through that landscape without being reminded of what a great artist noticed there.

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An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.

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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an artist.

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Making music videos, I try to bring musicians into the logistics of filmmaking, and I try to preserve whatever's of value and achievable in their idea. If it's something I can't achieve, I tell them straight. You want to make sure that the artist really loves the idea and is committed to it, otherwise they're not going to feel great when they're up there miming it.

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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.

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Every musician I have ever heard has influenced me. I often find I emulate micro-aspects of an artist, and combine it to form something new and unique.

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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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To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.

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