#artists

Good artists copy, great artists steal. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#copy #good #good artists #great #steal

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

— Lou Reed

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Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#business #formed #guitar #learned #managing

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. ↗

— Henry Flynt

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I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#artists #attribute #i #i am #possess

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well. ↗

— Ahmad Jamal

#base #built #classical #classical music #end

It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next. ↗

— Kimbra

#artists #come #cool #depth #fast

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt. ↗

— Suge Knight

#bankrupt #death #none #row #them

All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get. ↗

— John Kricfalusi

#artists #better #draw #get #going