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Now, as I understand it, the bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you, and what's gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk's gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were. ↗

— Alan Moore

#artists-way #bard #irony #modernity-is-a-sickness #musicians

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#conflict #science-fiction #science

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

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Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#sai #sakura #shippuuden #artists

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pendants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

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To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow. ↗

— M. Thomas Gammarino

#creativity #failure #japan

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists. ↗

— Paula Abdul

#been #choreography #i #idol #jobs

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#i #limits #look #ones #own

To be given the opportunity to help shape new artists' careers and mentor them to see their dreams come to fruition is a task I welcome with open arms. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#artists #careers #come #dreams #fruition

I was at the Royal Art School. That was a preparatory school specially for art teachers. You see, it was not so much for the development of artists. But we had there terribly stiff training. ↗

— Josef Albers

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