#artist

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about. ↗

— Pink

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

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I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

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The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces. ↗