Quotes with artist…

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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Billy Bragg The most important thing for anyone, I think, is to be engaged, whether you're an artist or a journalist is to be engaged in the process at some level.
    Billy Bragg
    English singer-songwriter (1957 - )
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  • Barbara Hepworth The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.
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    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • Piet Mondrian The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
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  • William Butler Yeats The preference for certain subjects in any art is a sign of compact between the artist and society.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • James Baldwin The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • T. S. Eliot The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bob Kane The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
    Bob Kane
    American comic book writer, animator and artist (1915 - 1998)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Norman Douglas The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher.
    Norman Douglas
    British Author (1868 - 1952)
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  • Brooks Atkinson The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Anthony Robbins There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Billy Corgan There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Isak Dineson Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me leave to do my utmost.
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  • Alexander Calder To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
    Alexander Calder
    American sculptor (0 - 1976)
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  • Auguste Rodin To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
    Auguste Rodin
    French sculptor (1840 - 1917)
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