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Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.

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But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

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Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.

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While the aesthetics of consumption (photographic or otherwise) requires a heroicized myth of the artist, the exemplary practice of the player-off codes requires only an operator, a producer, a scriptor, or a pasticheur.

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

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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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Who is the best rapper ever? I'll probably have to say Eminem. I would definitely say Eminem. He came from a whole another culture, literally. Mastered it, outsold everybody and he did every kind of record imaginable. He could take any topic and make a song out of it. I haven't seen any artist do that yet.

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Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

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I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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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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The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

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

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No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

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An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.

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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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You have too take from each artist what works for you, and then create your own sound. You put different combinations in the mix and it becomes something unique in the end.

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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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You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

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