#artist

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box. ↗

— Angie Stone

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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. ↗

— Dimitri Shostakovich

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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. ↗

— Pauline Kael

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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

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The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

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My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

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This is for everyone who has ever looked at the stars, or gazed from atop a hill, or across the sea and wondered... ↗

— Tim Perkins

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Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time. ↗

— Henry Miller

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An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. ↗

— Irving Stone

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