Al Yankovic Quotes, Pride Quotes, Artist Quotes

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I've been able to hang around longer than most "serious" acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

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I’m here now, I’m inevitably going to die at some point, and as an artist I feel an ardent urge to constantly be creating.

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Tags : Adi Shankar Quotes , Artist Quotes , Creating Quotes

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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Each year, more people want to become artists.

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I've noticed in my life that as you work on more things with more people, you spend less time hanging out with other people who are artists, creative people who give you a sense of family.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Time Quotes , Artist Quotes

What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?

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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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Tags : Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes , Love Quotes , Artist Quotes

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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Tags : James Joyce Quotes , Artist Quotes , Greatness Quotes

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

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Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Artist Quotes

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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Tags : Adria Petty Quotes , Artist Quotes , Ideas Quotes

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Artist Quotes , Departed Quotes

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Artist Quotes , Long Quotes

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

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Tags : Ad Reinhardt Quotes , Artist Quotes , Color Quotes

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

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

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Artist Quotes , World Quotes

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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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Artist Quotes , Criticism Quotes

An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.

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Tags : H. G. Wells Quotes , Artist Quotes

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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