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Artist Quotes


"My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me."


"As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist."


"A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production."


"I helped found Artists for New South Africa, but it used to be called Artists for Free South Africa. Alfre Woodard and a bunch of us started this."


"Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works."


"The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist."


"You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there."


"These are all voluntary resources which help parents sort out the choices without infringing on the artists' rights to free speech, which is something that we respect."


"There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t."


"I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone."


"Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great."


"Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville."


"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen."


"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."


"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."


"When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate."


"The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer."


"I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math."


"But it becomes disrespectful when the artist's process is not respected."


"Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist."
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