#artist

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

— Marcel Duchamp

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The art does not always mimic the artist. You never know the real person until you slide beneath their surface ↗

— Lisa Renee Jones

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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult. ↗

— Alan Bean

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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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A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object. ↗

— Richard Schickel

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I do not deny that I have made drawings and watercolors of an erotic nature. But they are always works of art. Are there no artists who have done erotic pictures? ↗

— Egon Schiele

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When you ask me what I came to do in this world, as an artist I will tell you: I came to live out loud. ↗

— Emile Zola

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The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. ↗

— Craig Raine

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