#artist

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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I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too. ↗

— Aly Raisman

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I don't think any one person, whether artist or not, has been given permission by anyone to put the responsibility of the way things are on anyone else. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

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The worth of a civilization or a culture is not valued in the terms of its material wealth or military power, but by the quality and achievements of its representative individuals - its philosophers, its poets and its artists. ↗

— Herbert Read

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The sensitive artist knows that a bitter wind is blowing. ↗

— Herbert Read

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Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of myself and the way I earn my living is as a performing artist. ↗

— Helen Reddy

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How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? ↗

— Lou Reed

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I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. ↗

— Lou Reed

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I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts. ↗

— Lou Reed

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