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Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside.


Rosanna Arquette


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A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.


Roy Ayers


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Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company.


Roy Ayers


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A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.


Laurie Anderson


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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.


Jackson Pollock


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Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws.


Marcel Duchamp


#artists #creativity #surrealism #art

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?


Robert Hughes


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From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art - a perfect compilation of human imperfections.


Criss Jami


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After the great Impressionists, and again after Van Gogh and Gaugin, people said, 'Painting is now played out.' But Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Roussel and Vuillard appeared and gave them the lie. 'We were wrong,' said the croakers, 'but this at any rate is the end.' Yet to refute them, and to prove that there is no end to art, still another generation of painters sprang up.


Ambroise Vollard


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It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.


Nile Rodgers


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