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Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
Research
George V. Higgins

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Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.
Goodness
Aldous Huxley

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The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
Arts and Artists
Max Jacob

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Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Housework
Erica Jong

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I'm still an artist. I'm never gonna do a shit movie, because I've got my modeling to support me.
Arts and Artists
Milla Jovovich

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In free society art is not a weapon. Artists are not engineers of the soul.
Arts and Artists
John F. Kennedy

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Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
Nature
Paul Klee

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An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
Arts and Artists
Willem De Kooning

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The upshot was, my paintings must burn that English artists might finally learn.
Censorship
D. H. Lawrence

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There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won t.
Rock and Roll
Annie Lennox

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Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Taste
Marshall Mcluhan

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An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Solitude
Henry Miller

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An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Cities and City Life
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art.
Humankind
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
Arts and Artists
Novalis

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The artist belongs to their work, not the work to the artist.
Arts and Artists
Novalis

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Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.
Children
Pablo Picasso

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In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn't working, he's a bum.
Acting and Actors
Anthony Quinn

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Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
Imitation
W. Winwood Reade

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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Arts and Artists
Robert Schumann

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The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.
Peace
Thich Nhat Hanh

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Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
Plagiarism
Lionel Trilling

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The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
Plagiarism
Lionel Trilling

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An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Arts and Artists
Andy Warhol

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Critics and Criticism
Rebecca West

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun