#artist

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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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. ↗

— Jack Prelutsky

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I've tried to help a lot of young artists get started. ↗

— Charley Pride

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From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it. ↗

— Reynolds Price

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In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. ↗

— Charley Pride

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When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out. ↗

— Charley Pride

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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum. ↗

— Anthony Quinn

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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. ↗

— Auguste Renoir

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Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

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I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue. ↗

— James De La Vega

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