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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
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Walt Whitman 
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It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.
David Hockney
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
Alberto Giacometti
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Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
Paul Westerberg
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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.
Roberto Burle Marx
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Ah! My Lord! now I understand, Oh, yes! What a voice! What an artist! I understand all!
Landon Ronald
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
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The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.
Emily Carr
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Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Mako
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In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
Norman Jewison
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