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An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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I have a suspicion that a lot of artists are trying to get a laugh but, unlike stand-ups, they don't get an immediate response from their audience; a laugh is a rare thing in a gallery. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star. ↗

— Patti Smith

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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Out of all the artistic things I do, music is the most rewarding because it's so hard to write songs. ↗

— Gwen Stefani

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Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding. ↗

— Edward Steichen

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I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist. ↗

— Stephen Stills

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I am, as they say, the classic starving artist. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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