Top Artist Quotes
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
Pablo Picasso
An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
Orson Welles
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe
Bill Griffith 
Federico Fellini 
Henry Rollins 
Edward Steichen 
Mary McLeod Bethune 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 
Rene Auberjonois 
David Lean 
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Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
Edwin Louis Cole 
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Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
Eugen Herrigel
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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.
Jon Secada
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
Patrick Swayze
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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
John Berryman
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
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Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.
Alfred Sisley
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I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of sickly light, no matter how terrible the soil you were seeded in your nature will out somehow.
David Knopfler
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A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin
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