#artist

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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And a lot of the artists and people that we hired were fans of Transformers growing up, so having so many fans working on my crew really kept me on point. ↗

— Michael Bay

#crew #fans #growing #growing up #having

I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere. ↗

— Beck

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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy. ↗

— James Van Der Beek

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You seldom hear any young artists in country music. ↗

— Conway Twitty

#artists #country #country music #hear #music

I'm in a position where, theoretically, I could play the same ten concertos and make a very good living bouncing around playing Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky and Barber, but I really think artists should keep pushing limits and trying new things. ↗

— Joshua Bell

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Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. ↗

— Saul Bellow

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It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

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I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

#always #artist #being #ever #every