Anton Chekhov Quotes, Time Quotes, Artist Quotes

It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

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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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The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Artist Quotes , Form Quotes

I do original songs in the style of other artists, where I try to learn all their musical idiosyncrasies and try to do something that sounds like them and yet is a bit more sick and twisted.

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

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The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I’m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse.

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I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

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We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

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Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.

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A lot of artists have really been supportive over the years.

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I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Artist Quotes , Thinking 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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Tags : Adrian Tomine Quotes , Artist Quotes , Past Quotes

People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Artist Quotes , Government Quotes

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

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I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.

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

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An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Artist Quotes , Criticism 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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