#artists

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

— Douglas Sirk

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The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. ↗

— Logan Pearsall Smith

#devil #familiar #good #good work #making

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. ↗

— Patti Smith

#labels #resistant #traditionally

The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication. ↗

— Patti Smith

#coming #communication #engaged #hollywood #materialistic

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#categories #expected #fit #fraudulent #into

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #confined #output #their #themselves

Some artists imagine they've got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold of them. As a result, they end up supporting a cultural prison that is out of their control. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #control #cultural #end #fact

Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human. ↗

— Terry Gross

#case #examine #human #kind #like

The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators. ↗

— Brad Holland

#artists #illustrators #left #only #people

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world. ↗

— Niall Horan

#arenas #artists #best #i #make