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  • I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
  • For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.
  • Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
  • Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
  • A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
  • Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
  • 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.
  • The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a fool, the artist an escapist, the man of vision a criminal.
  • The artists who the world has always recognized as the greatest are those with the widest sympathy. The greatness of the great artist depends precisely on the width and the intensity of his sympathy.
  • Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year.
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  • Burning Spear A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to know how many records they've sold and where they've sold. I know that I have never been treated the way I'm supposed to be treated - like an artist. That's why I do things for myself. I feel like I'm a free man.
    Burning Spear
    Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter, vocalist and musician (1945 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Robert Greene Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
    The 48 Laws of Power
    Robert Greene
    American author (1959 - )
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  • André Maurois Memory is a great artist. For every man and for every woman it makes the recollection of his or her life a work of art and an unfaithful record.
    André Maurois
    French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
    Your Private Sky: Discourse (2001)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Billy Corgan A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Bruce Lee A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, I do not hit, it hits all by itself.
    Bruce Lee: Enter the Dragon (1973)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Lao-Tzu A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • James Baldwin A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Cameron Sinclair A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.
    Cameron Sinclair
    British architect and writer (1973 - )
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  • Jane Harrison A young and vital child knows no limit to his own will, and it is the only reality to him. It is not that he wants at the outset to fight other wills, but that they simply do not exist for him. Like the artist, he goes forth to the work of creation, gloriously alone.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • W. H. Auden All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carlisle Floyd America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Charles Horton Cooley An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • William Faulkner An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Joseph Conrad An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Hortense Calisher An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, by nature of the judgment seat, is born sitting.
    Hortense Calisher
    American writer (1911 - 2009)
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  • Willem De Kooning An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
    Willem De Kooning
    Dutch-American painter (1904 - 1997)
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