#artist

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me. ↗

— Meredith Brooks

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The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy. ↗

— Georges Rouault

#causes #conscience #disease #endless #fills

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

You need a big ego to be an artist. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#big #ego #need #you

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world. ↗

— Hans Hofmann

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Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another. ↗

— Jim Dine

#art #artist #biographical #built #passion

I sort of came out at the dawn of the Internet in the mid-90s and I think it helped break my career. I think I was one of the first artists to really benefit from the grassroots swell that can happen online. I don't know if I would have broken out without it. ↗

— Jewel

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The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators. ↗

— Sol LeWitt

#commodities #factory #like #our #producer

Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#going #metronome #society

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me. ↗

— John Legend

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