#artist

I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history. ↗

— Judy Chicago

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Every artist in the world likes his or her work to make people think. ↗

— Christo

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The freedom of every artist is essential. ↗

— Christo

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As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

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Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. ↗

— Gianni Versace

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Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music. ↗

— Terri Clark

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One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

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Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out. ↗

— David Allan Coe

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The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist. ↗

— Novalis

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I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing. ↗

— Damien Hirst

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