#artist

I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. ↗

— Walter Murch

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I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist. ↗

— Graham Nash

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The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind. ↗

— Max Nordau

#burden #dances #feeling #his #idea

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence. ↗

— Alva Noto

#coincidence #decision #every #individual #nothing

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic? ↗

— Alva Noto

#coincidence #come #creativity #general #like

Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life. ↗

— Novalis

#interpret #life #meaning #meaning of #meaning of life

I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist. ↗

— Laura Nyro

#categorize #i #should #think #you

An artist is his own fault. ↗

— John O'Hara

#fault #his #own

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#complex #life #people #personality #politician

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#eat #end #famine #going #like