#artist

True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

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The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

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The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him. ↗

— Auguste Rodin

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Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing. ↗

— Sonny Rollins

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You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. ↗

— John Romero

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The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

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I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second. ↗

— Erykah Badu

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We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. ↗

— Jack Bowman

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An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

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