#artists

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do. ↗

— David Hockney

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A collection makes its own demands. Many artists have been collectors. I think of it rather as an illness. I felt it was using up too much energy. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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I don't look at the work of my contemporaries very much; I tend to look at pictures by dead artists. It's much easier to get near their paintings. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

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I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about. ↗

— Brad Holland

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Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. ↗

— Brad Holland

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The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments. ↗

— Brad Holland

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I want to prove a point. That point is, actors are artists, not narcissists necessarily. ↗

— William Hurt

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The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work. ↗

— Enrique Iglesias

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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting. ↗

— Natalie Imbruglia

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