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The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
David Mamet
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
Henri Matisse
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As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.
Idina Menzel
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.


William Cowper
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I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.


Kenneth Branagh
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God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.


Johnny Cash
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As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.


William Blake
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Pat O'Brien knows nothing. He's on the Hell express.


Rob Corddry
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To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way.
Mos Def
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Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.
Paul Rand
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Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.


Mary Leakey
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He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.


Henry George
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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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In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
Pablo Picasso
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Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for he sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.


Johnny Winter
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What I am is a thinking, feeling human being compelled by history.


Avery Brooks
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You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.


Elaine Stritch
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Because I never thought the Lord would treat me any different from any other honest man or that I had an official position that compelled the Lord to help me in any other way than He would help any other man.
John Harvey Kellogg
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