#artist

You know, you become an artist, you become an observer, of life, and you digest life by making art about it. ↗

— Liz Phair

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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#child #every #grow #grow up #how

Good artists copy, great artists steal. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#copy #good #good artists #great #steal

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

#artist #come #earth #emotions #over

I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs they don't mean. I decided that I was going to be me to the fullest extent, that my songs were going to reflect relationships I've had, things I've been through, and even the stuff I'm embarrassed about. ↗

— Pink

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Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere. ↗

— Jeremy Piven

#bar #bar mitzvah #boy #had #hope

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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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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