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• My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like – strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

  Ty Segall

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  Tags in Artist, Strict

• The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Art, Progress

  Tags in Artist, Personality, Poetry
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  An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.

  Langston Hughes

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• Generally, when a record label suggests album ideas for you, you smile politely, and then proceed to shoot it down, because it’s never what you as an artist feel is right for you.

  John Scofield

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  Tags in Generally, Artist

• The artist must manage to make posterity believe that he never existed.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Artist

• The artist’s world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

  Paul Strand

  Topics in Art

  Tags in World, Always, Doorstep, Where, His, Limitless, Away, Anywhere, Artist, Far, Feet, Few, Found, Lives
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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art, Children

  Tags in How, Up, Once, Ground, Grow, Every, Artist, Problem, Remain

• The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

  Jackson Pollock

  Topics in Art, Emotion

  Tags in Expressing, Illustrating, Artist, Feelings

• An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why.

  William Faulkner

  Topics in Art, Work

  Tags in Writing, Artist, Creature, Busy

• Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.

  Jackson Pollock

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Painting, Creative, Artist
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  Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Writing, Artist, Learn

• Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Topics in Art, Soul

  Tags in His, Expression, Production, Adventure, Every, Artist, Should

• 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.

  Maria Callas

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Artist

• I’m an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don’t imagine I’ll abandon that completely.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

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  Tags in Artist, Myself

• My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist – a painter, a decorative painter.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

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  Tags in Artist, Musician

• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

  Oscar Wilde

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Portraits, Painters And Painting, Artist

• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  Isaac Hanson

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  Tags in Artist, Connect
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  All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once you grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Topics in Art, Children

  Tags in Remain, Artist

• So I don’t think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.

  Santi White

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  Tags in Musician, Artist

• I feel like ‘Next To Me’ is a great introduction because it’s a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I’m proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.

  Emeli Sandé

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  Tags in Introduce, Artist