1519 Artists Quotes for You to Enjoy

That's something that I think the best artists retain - the ability to invite you into their small, intimate inner space, and let that be what radiates. Alyson Stoner

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One of the best things about Kickstarter and crowdfunding and the collapse of the music business is a lot of artists like me have been forced to face our own weird mess about ourselves and what we thought it meant to become musicians. Amanda Palmer

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Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind. Ameen Rihani

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Oh God, it's such a big world right now for artists. There are as many possibilities as you can have time for, getting your music out there with the internet, and Youtube, Vimeo, Facebook, and everything that you have, there is a way to spread the word. To me, the first thing you have to have is substance and content and real depth. Amy Ray

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Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might. Amy Tan

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Beastie Boys and David Bowie are two of my favorite artists. Anders Holm

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I'm part of the generation that grew up with great rappers like 2Pac and Biggie and people like Amy Winehouse. We've seen a lot of different artists come and go. Even people who are still here, they seem consumed and blinded by fame. It may not have taken them out physically, but they have been taken out. Anderson Paak

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I'd been watching documentaries about early rock where white artists took 'race records' from blues and soul musicians to achieve mass appeal. I wanted to flip that and do an EP covering only white artists. Anderson Paak

I was not influenced by any artists. Andrae Crouch

Any Artists Influenced

I've always written about people who have very abstracted in a certain way. I write about scientists and artists and musicians. I write about people who live in their heads who are very obsessed about a certain set of details in the physical world. Andrea Barrett

There is a slight problem with being a conceptual artist these days: You won't get paid. But this levels the field and takes the art of money out of the field of serious art. The only conceptual artists who would conceive of making money on the Internet are a lowbrow species known as hustlers. Andrei Codrescu

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All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest. Andrew Jack

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I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners. Andrew Sean Greer

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Instead of silencing artists, is it possible that antidepressants can actually help them vocalize their creative ambitions? Andrew Shaffer

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It has been a pleasure to play with all these artists. Pretenders was a real highlight, but also Damon, aka Badly Drawn Boy, Sinead... Ian Brown... all of these people I learn from and love to work with. Andy Rourke

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As artists, we like night more than day sometimes. Ang Lee

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