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An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts, and/or demonstrating an art.

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“Artists shouldn't be made famous.”
“It was Homer who gave laws to the artist.”
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“Dead artists always bring out an older, richer crowd.”
“Dead he is not, but departed,—for the artist never dies.”
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“... the primary obstacle for any artis: not piracy, but obscurity.”
“We become expert artists because of love’s investment, not capitalism’s.”
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“He's being irritating and irresponsible, but what do you expect? He's an artist.”
“The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination, will be the greatest!”
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“Artists have themes that they go back to—that they are haunted by and obsessed with.”
“In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,
To make some good, but others to exceed.”
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“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
“In a way, artists are messengers between worlds, bringing ideas and symbols from one to the other.”
“The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.”
“All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us all that we are more alike than we are unalike.”
“Revolution is not only won by numbers, but by visionaries, and if artists aren't visionaries, then we have no business doing what we do.”
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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.”
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“An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.”
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““He is difficult to work with, like every real artist, but certainly fond of money—”
“Like every real artist. I believe I see your point.””
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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.”
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“The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form-knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration”
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“The Joker I now do what other people only dream. I make art until someone dies. See? I am the world's first fully functioning homicidal artist.”
“For an artist there is no more serious and, at the same time, more joyous task than to create, through art, a new aesthetic, and ultimately, a new way of being.”
“Kore-eda knows: A scared artist is a contradiction in terms; it betrays their vocation.”
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“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.”
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“If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.”
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Artist on American Revolution

“[He] had lost all his clothes. He was in an old, dirty blanket jacket, his beard long, and his face so full of sores he could not clean it.”
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Artist on Elvis Presley

“I would kiss them both on the mouth.”
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Artist on Avner Strauss

“When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower.”
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Artist on Alethea Arnaquq-Baril

“I think a lot of my work is about un-shaming things or de-shaming things.”
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Artist on Eugène Delacroix

“Les artistes qui cherchent la perfection en tout sont ceux qui ne peuvent l'atteindre en aucune partie.”
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Artist on Man Ray

“With him you could try anything—there was nothing you were told not to do, except spill the chemicals. With Man Ray, you were free to do what your imagination conjured, and that kind of encouragement was wonderful.”
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Artist on Edie Sedgwick

“I was a great, great friend of Edie Sedgwick … Edie and I were in several of the early Andy Warhol films … Edie was beautiful beyond words. She was absolutely breath-taking and a very sweet person. Edie was a precious person. She was heavily into drugs which caused her death. … Edie was very glamorous. And truly beautiful, breathtaking, and I think it was a great loss she died so young.”
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About Artist

An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts, and/or demonstrating an art.