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

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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

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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You really need to stop Googling yourself and start being an 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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When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

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No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.

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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.

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All artists need a room of their own

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An artist’s job is to captivate… if we stumble into truth, we got lucky.

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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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Tags : Anton Chekhov Quotes , Regret Quotes , Artist Quotes

If you're an artist trying to put out your own record on your own label, it's hard to get a distribution deal because no one wants to sign a deal with one entity. They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

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The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

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The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

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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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All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.

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I have a feeling a lot of artists' work got lost [because of AIDS]. Howard was fortunate because his family and friends supported him, but a chilling thing I remember was these guys at St. Vincent's [Hospital] who would call out for someone to listen to them, just for a moment. They were dying alone. Who knows what happened to their work? It's been a process to follow the thread to find out everything Howard did. It's getting over that shock.

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Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.

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You are right in demanding that an artist approach his work consciously, but you are confusing two concepts: the solution of a problem and the correct formulation of a problem. Only the second is required of the artist.

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