#artist

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All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as man multiplied by two. So it is, was, and shall be.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#because #grotesque #just #just because #man

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.


Anton Seidl


#always #artists #details #few #his

People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.


Cindy Sherman


#artists #because #comes #competitive #definitely

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years.


Carly Simon


#artistry #been #different #few #gone

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.


Joe Simon


#after #american #artists #book #carried

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.


Jessica Simpson


#artist #away #deal #else #everybody

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.


Patti Smith


#artist #aspect #being #figure #good

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.


Patti Smith


#competition #enters #god #into #somebody

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.


Patti Smith


#labels #resistant #traditionally

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.


Patti Smith


#because #drawing #felt #female #gender