#artists

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work. ↗

— Brian Eno

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When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway? ↗

— Henry Flynt

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The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

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I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill. ↗

— Bryan White

#because #country #country music #drawn #grew

All kids, when they go to school, are pretty good artists and dancers and singers and poets. All that gets buried, basically through being educated, or brainwashed. ↗

— William Wiley

#basically #being #brainwashed #buried #dancers

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#art #artists #because #certain #closed

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#because #being #britain #coming #each

So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#artists #away #controls #doing #go

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter. ↗

— Steve Guttenberg

#bad #because #couple #just #just because

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

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