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The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience. ↗

— Nick Rhodes

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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else. ↗

— Van Cliburn

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A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one. ↗

— Dimitri Shostakovich

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The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself. ↗

— Pauline Kael

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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist. ↗

— Thomas Kinkade

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Players are artists who create their own reality within the game. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

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The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

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I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be. ↗

— Mel Torme

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I’m not sure about all the particulars that led to this moment. Do I believe life is a series of dots to be connected…or that no one can outrun destiny…or that all roads lead to truth and coincidence is a lie to distract us? The reason I was in this place no longer mattered. The harsh reality stared me in the face and demanded an immediate decision. Walk away and blame it on my age. Or stay and try to help a woman who had slowly become my friend over the last few weeks. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

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They were both young men under thirty. Art is not so precocious as literature, and does not send quite so many early potatoes into the market, so that the age of thirty is considered young enough for a painter to have learnt his business sufficiently to be marketable from the picture-dealing point of view. ("The Phantom Model") ↗

— Hume Nisbet

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