Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
Pablo Picasso
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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Andy Warhol
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Langston Hughes
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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Henry Ward Beecher
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It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
Tim Burton
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Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.
Lana Del Rey
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To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Jasper Johns
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Great artists suffer for the people.
Marvin Gaye
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Charles Dudley Warner
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No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
Martha Graham
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As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.
Phylicia Rashad
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Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
Al Hirschfeld
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix
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Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
Margot Fonteyn
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Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.
Erykah Badu
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Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.
Josh Peck
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The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.
Thomas Eakins
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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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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
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An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.
George Santayana
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True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure.
Auguste Rodin
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola
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The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
Wassily Kandinsky
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To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
Kate Chopin
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You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
Lauryn Hill
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Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
Andrew Wyeth
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In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
David Hockney
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller
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To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
Auguste Rodin
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Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
Wiz Khalifa
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
Dylan Thomas
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes De Mille
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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Willem de Kooning
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To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show.
Blake Shelton
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
Albert Camus
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Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.
Henry Rollins
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The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake
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Even a true artist does not always produce art.
Carroll O'Connor
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The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Novalis
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Every artist writes his own autobiography.
Havelock Ellis
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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
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
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The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
W. Somerset Maugham