Quotes with artist

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  • Simone de Beauvoir In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Carl Sagan In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 24 (p. 431)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • John Millington Synge In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest - usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation - and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.
    John Millington Synge
    Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer (1871 - 1909)
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  • Jalal-Uddin Rumi Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
    Jalal-Uddin Rumi
    Persian poet (1207 - 1273)
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  • Carl Andre It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
    Carl Andre
    American minimalist artist (1935 - )
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  • James Baldwin It is only because the world looks on his talent with such a frightening indifference that the artist is compelled to make his talent important.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Virginia Woolf It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Ezra Pound It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Paul Auster It would be a terrible world if everyone was an artist. Nothing would get done!
    (2014)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Bebe Neuwirth It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
    Bebe Neuwirth
    American actress, singer and dancer (1958 - )
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  • Busta Rhymes It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Brad Garrett It's like whether you're in a huge movie or you've just recorded an incredible album you've got to do the next thing, and that's part of being an artist.
    Brad Garrett
    American stand-up comedian, actor, voice actor, and professional (1960 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor It's the role of the artist to pursue content.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Benito Mussolini Lenin is an artist who has worked men, as other artists have worked marble or metals. But men are harder than stone and less malleable than iron. There is no masterpiece. The artist has failed. The task was superior to his capacities.
    Popolo dItalia (14 July 1920) The Artificer and the Material, quoted in Mussolini in the Making (1938) by Gaudens Megaro, p. 326
    Benito Mussolini
    Italian journalist, politician and dictator (1883 - 1945)
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  • Toni Morrison Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Agnes De Mille Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
    Agnes De Mille
    American dancer and choreographer (1905 - 1993)
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  • Brooke Shields Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Tennessee Williams Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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