#artist

I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#days #feel #i #like #worst

I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot. ↗

— Evan Hunter

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I have never considered myself a poet. I have no interest in poetic artistry. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#considered #i #interest #myself #never

Just for the record, being smeared with shit and naked in the wilderness, spattered with pink vomit, this does not necessarily make you a real artist. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#artists

No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel. ↗

— Naima Adedapo

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture. ↗

— David Amram

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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#anything #apart #artistry #artists #change

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

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It's harder to be a success, globally, and be artistic. Harder to have that balance than just to be artistic when nobody understands you. ↗

— Andre Benjamin

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