#artist

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That's closer to it. The artistic life without the talent. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

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[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds, ↗

— Ross Wetzsteon

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The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level. ↗

— Billy Bragg

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once she grows up. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

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The ‘Muse’ is not an artistic mystery, but a mathematical equation. The gift are those ideas you think of as you drift to sleep. The giver is that one you think of when you first awake. ↗

— Roman Payne

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I don't believe in art. I believe in artists. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

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Bare lists of words are found suggestive to an imaginative and excited mind. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial. The right condition for him is that in which his work in not only convenient but unavoidable. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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