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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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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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Writing Quotes , Artist Quotes

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

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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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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Art Quotes , Artist Quotes

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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I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?

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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 machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

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The Man who never in his Mind & Thoughts travel'd to Heaven Is No Artist.

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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.

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There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.

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Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.

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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded

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Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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The art of art... is simplicity.

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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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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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The time has come for writers, especially those who are artists, to admit that in this world one cannot make anything out, just as Socrates once admitted it, just as Voltaire admitted it.

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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Time Quotes , Artist Quotes

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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