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Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.

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I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.

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Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.

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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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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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Tags : Adrienne Monnier Quotes , Artist Quotes , Giving Quotes

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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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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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Artist Quotes , Broken Quotes

I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.

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The artist after all is a solitary being.

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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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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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The poetical tendency of the present and of the preceding century has been divided in a manner singularly curious. One loud and conspicuous faction of bards, giving way to the corrupt influences of a decaying general culture, seems to have abandoned all the properties of versification and reason in its mad scramble after sensational novelty; whilst the other and quieter school constituting a more logical evolution from the poesy of the Georgian period, demands an accuracy of rhyme and metre unknown even to the polished artists of the age of Pope.

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Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Artist Quotes , Literature Quotes

Our label is very digital-friendly. We try to provide some free stuff to get interest in the band, but we have to pay our artists. They have to get paid.

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I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.

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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

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

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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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