#artist

Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious. ↗

— Duff Goldman

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I am an artist. The track is my canvas, and the car is my brush. ↗

— Graham Hill

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That is what the title of artist means: one who perceives more than his fellows, and who records more than he has seen. ↗

— Edward Gordon Craig

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To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write. ↗

— Richard Hugo

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To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist. ↗

— Jacques-Louis David

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The ego must be developed, not for its own sake, but because it is needed by society. If you are only interested in self-realisation then you cannot make a good painting. To do this you have to have thought about forming and about how ideas of forming stem from history. ↗

— Joseph Bueys

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The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize. ↗

— Robert Hughes

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I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types. ↗

— Spencer Dryden

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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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