#artist

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. ↗

— John Dewey

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I don't know if there are artists out there who love their own records. I haven't met any, and I'm kind of extreme in the other direction, but therein lies the impetus to keep working and keep making new songs and new records. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight. ↗

— Placido Domingo

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I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement. ↗

— Lena Dunham

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Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man. ↗

— James Thurber

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The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. ↗

— Max Eastman

#cherish #consciousness #defining #function

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart. ↗

— Sheena Easton

#definitely #heart #i #pop

I'm rarely grabbed by anything the way I was when I was 10 years younger. About the only relatively new artists whose albums I own are Beck, and They Might Be Giants. ↗

— Greg Egan

#albums #anything #artists #beck #giants

I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing. ↗

— Zac Efron

#around #artists #been #better #day

It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

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