#artists

I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

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That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

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Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem. ↗

— Robert Smithson

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Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time. ↗

— Henry Miller

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Artists are those who can evade the verbose. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

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You've always lived a life of pretense, not a real life-- a simulated existence, not a genuine existence. Everything about you, everything you are, has always been pretense, never genuine, never real. ↗

— Thomas Bernhard

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I love you, Lucien, but I am a muse, you are an artist, I am not here to make you comfortable. ↗

— Christopher Moore

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It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice. ↗

— Liam O'Flaherty

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Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base. ↗

— Joan Bauer

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