#artist

All artists are now free to express their own personality. ↗

— Maurice Denis

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Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

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My first thought, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else. A kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. That still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy. ↗

— John Updike

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I was constantly being around artists and Bohemian types. ↗

— Spencer Dryden

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The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves. ↗

— Marcel Duchamp

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We haven't had a slew of artists, but the artists we do come out with have always had the same momentum. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

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Film, as far as I'm concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it's just when they took it away from you. ↗

— John Dykstra

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To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel. ↗

— Don Ellis

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Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own. ↗

— Lukas Foss

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