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"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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"Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes."
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"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."
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"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
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"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
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"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."
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"David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters."
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"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."
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"Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way."
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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."
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"When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it."
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"Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country."
People
"Style is the most valuable asset of the modern artist. That's probably why so many styles are reported lost or stolen each year."
Artist
"In America, the only truly popular art form is the movies. Most people consider painting a hobby and literature, schoolwork."
Art
"In Modernism, reality used to validate media. In Postmodernism, the media validate reality. If you don't believe this, just think how many times you've described some real event as being 'just like a movie.'"
Being
"If they were starting their careers today, Rockwell and Picasso would probably both be painting on black velvet."
Career
"Cubism is still the most important art movement for the same reason that John D. is still the most important Rockefeller."
Art
"Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well."
Truth
"The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments."
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"I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about."
Artist
"Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life."
Art
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