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Artist Quotes
"My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career."
45
"Well we took it apart scene by scene. We examined every sentence, every full stop, every comma. He has a most wonderful eye for detail, Roman, and you know, he's a very good artist."
37
"All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists."
20
"Once you're a Motown artist, you're always a Motown artist."
14
"Paul is a very creative artist but I'm more that thorough, meticulous, disciplined nut."
13
"A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong."
10
"I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist."
9
"The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable."
9
"My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me."
9
"But I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along."
8
"There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist."
7
"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."
7
"An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's."
7
"I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing."
7
"A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself."
7
"Back in the 60s, San Francisco artists lived in communes."
7
"Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes."
7
"There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist."
6
"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."
6
"You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect."
6
"Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy."
5
"Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down."
5
"A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself."
5
"Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best."
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