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A president cannot meaningfully honor certain token artists while the people at large are so dishonored.'”

A quote that I like very much comes close to explaining my attitude about taking photographs. ‘Chinese poetry rarely trespasses beyond the bounds of actuality the great Chinese poets accept the world exactly as they find it in all its terms and with profound simplicity they seldom talk about one thing in terms of another; but are able enough and sure enough as artists to make the ultimately exact terms become the beautiful terms.’

A prose writer never sees a reader walk out of a book; for a playwright, it's another matter. An audience is an invaluable education. In my experience, theatre artists don't know what they've made until they've made it.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

A professional entertainer who allows himself to become known as a singer of folk songs is bound to have trouble with his conscience provided, of course, that he possesses one. As a performing artist, he will pride himself on timing and other techniques designed to keep the audience in his control ... his respect for genuine folklore reminds him that these changes, and these techniques, may give the audience a false picture of folk music.

Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

A real artist may create his picture in a lonely desert... gods look over his shoulder; he creates in their company. What does he care whether or not anybody admires his picture?

A real artist is the one who has learned to recognize and to render... the 'radiance' of all things as an epiphany or showing forth of the truth.

A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of terror. Like an artist, the man creating terror should be detached, cold-blooded. He must keep in mind that the energy of the terror he releases can consume him.

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.

Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.

Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

A Romantic ideology that predates rock glorifies the self-destructive artist as someone who's too honest and delicate for this world... It's not an easy job, and its stresses can take their toll.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

Arrival = Prison, and the artist must never be a prisoner.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

Art feeds off art...and artists feed off artists.

Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.

Art is about the context in which it is made as much as the object itself; objects take on different meanings in different contexts. If the artist is unaware of the context, it's very unlikely the work will be very good.

Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells.

Art is not disposable.

Art is constitutive-the artist determines beauty. He does not take it over.

Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.

Art is anything you can get away with.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

Artists are controlled by the life that beats in them, like the ocean beats on the shore.

Artists are like cockroaches; everything is grist for the mill.

Artists are not helper monkeys; they’re not in it to visualize 'your' story, because it stopped being 'your' story the moment you engaged in a collaborative medium. From here on in, it’s also the artist’s story, and if you’re working with an illustrator who’s any good at all, you as a writer have to tamp down any control-freak tendencies you suffer under and relax into the process.

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

Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.

Artists are the monks of the bourgeois state.

Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

Artists are the seeds, brave enough to live and flower before humanity. Our soil is contemplation, our water, its understanding. Whether my petals be beautiful to another, to I and The Maker, they are Unique and yet, only equally as beautiful as any other. Some call that being a Dreamer. I call it, being Belov'ed.

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.

Artists do not need monuments erected for them because their works are their monuments.

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

Artists don't like the business side. None of us were born understanding money. We all had to learn how to do it. So it's just something creative people need to get familiar with... not really so scary.

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

Artists draw for themselves, If someone draws for them, theyre not an artist. An artist is someone who makes their own music and albums. Artist think music is a drawing, and they draw theirs.

Artists freeze themselves into these weird postures that are meant to be impressive and involving, then they fling them out into the world like Polaroids, and then they move on. And I'm stuck in this intense relationship to the Polaroid.

Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

Artist awake or be forever fallen.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.