William Blake Quotes, Artist Quotes, Differences Quotes

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

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

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If artists do see fields blue they are deranged, and should go to an asylum. If they only pretend to see them blue, they are criminals and should go to prison.

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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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If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?

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Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them.

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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.

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As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

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For man is by nature an artist.

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In order to find reality, each must search for his own universe, look for the details that contribute to this reality7 that one feels under the surface of things. To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means never to look away.

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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.

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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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A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

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We had a missionary zeal about blues music, and I felt, particularly, that Mickie Most was attempting to homogenize, sweeten, and make it accessible for the mass market. Which is understandable if you're the producer, but aggravating if you're the 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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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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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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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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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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