#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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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. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. ↗

— Jackson Pollock

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Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. ↗

— Paul Robeson

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Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that. ↗

— Chris Robinson

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I had been stockpiling Gospel songs for other artists, and had planned to submit them to Gospel artists. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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Once you're a Motown artist, that's your stigmatism, and I was there from the very first day. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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