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The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true artist is always out of his time. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
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The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths. -- Bruce Nauman
If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist. -- ASAP Ferg
To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. -- Brad Paisley
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one. -- D. H. Lawrence
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel. -- Don Ellis
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life. -- Randy Houser
I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur. -- Nick Cannon
The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. -- Ludwig Bemelmans
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good. -- Bill Skarsgard
A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good. -- Bill Skarsgard
I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material. -- Haley Reinhart
I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor. -- Jemima Kirke
I know a lot of people who are not here anymore, and I wonder why I'm still here... Not a day goes by that I don't think about Sam Cooke. His presence is so strong and so convincing to me, a true artist, a true talent, who never talked down to people. -- Bobby Womack
No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times. -- Brad Paisley
A true artist is an ugly man. -- Osamu Dazai
The true artist can only labor con amore. -- Victor Hugo
The true gardener, like an artist, is never satisfied. -- H. E. Bates
Every true artist is at war with the world. -- Anthony Kiedis
There is nothing more lonely than a true artist. -- Tom Spanbauer
Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist. -- Frances Harper
As with any true artist, change is the only constant. -- Tony MacAlpine
A true artist never portrays to please, but to show. -- Christian Morgenstern
It is true that every artist has his own religion. -- Robert Motherwell
A true artist is driven by the never-ending desire to create. -- Lee Hammond
Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream. -- John Lindberg
For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. -- Albert Einstein
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression. -- Pablo Picasso
The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong. -- Neil Young
A plagiarist steals from one person. A true artist steals from everybody. -- Pablo Picasso
A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality. -- Plato
The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything. -- Oscar Wilde
The true artist and the sane collector never will tolerate insincerity and impudence. -- Walter J. Phillips
Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved. -- Andrew McAleer
Every true artist must, in his own way, be a magician, a charlatan. -- Orson Welles
A true artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. -- Salvador Dali
Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon. -- Quincy Jones
The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist's own spiritual nature. -- George Inness
In my experience, what every true artist wants, really wants, is to be paid. -- Terry Pratchett
do what only a true artist can do ... pounce upon the forgotten butterfly of revelation -- Vladimir Nabokov
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. -- Anne Lamott
An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy. -- Norman Reilly Raine
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is no art. -- Henri Matisse
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. -- Laurie Anderson
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent -- Oscar Wilde
A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent. -- Oscar Wilde
If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true. -- Dahvie Vanity
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine. -- Marco Pierre White
Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist. -- Lon Milo DuQuette
I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses. -- Ice Cube
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world. -- Oskar Kokoschka
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The true Martial Artist is not the one who fears change, but the one who causes it to happen. -- Ed Parker
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. -- John Berger
To be artist, and lover, that is the true goal, the only adequate objective, the divinely destined end for man. -- Bernard Iddings Bell
The true artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator. -- Anna Pavlova
A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support -- Talib Kweli
Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist. -- Hokusai
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel. -- Don Ellis
A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it. -- St. Lucia
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul. -- Mahatma Gandhi
A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example. -- Duane Ludwig
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. -- Oscar Wilde
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art, -- Daniel Alarcon
The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal. -- Bronislaw Huberman
Art was not created as a way to riches. Strive to become a true artist; all else will take care of itself. -- Robert Schumann
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. -- Edgar Degas
Emulation and imitation can legitimately influence one's development, but ultimately the artist must find his own path - and be true to himself. -- Ken Danby
Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. -- Orhan Pamuk
Every true artist is the salvation of every other. Only artists produce for each other a world that is fit to live in. -- D. H. Lawrence
The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. -- Isaac Asimov
Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul. -- Dolly Parton
Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity. -- Orhan Pamuk
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician. -- Buddy Rich
I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs. -- Alessia Cara
A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist. -- Christian Keiber
Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it. -- Roger Scruton
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may. -- John F. Kennedy
The Nobel Prize comes from outside, it's a social recognition [reconnaissance] in a way. And I think a true artist is driven by interior necessities. -- Catherine Camus
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime -- Faith Hill
Sam Turton is the true embodiment of the responsible artist. The honesty and integrity of the man comes out with every soulful note he sings. -- Andrew Craig
Through education comes understanding. Through understanding comes true appreciation. All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. -- Pablo Picasso
With the true artist, the social formula that he recommends is a matter of secondary importance; the source of his art, its animating spirit, is decisive. -- Rosa Luxemburg
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that. -- David Hockney
Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour. -- Walter J. Phillips
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks. -- Bono
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The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him. -- Giuseppe Verdi
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture. -- Piet Mondrian
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman. -- George Bernard Shaw
Actually, the true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. -- Ludwig Bemelmans
Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability. -- Edgar Alwin Payne
So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially. -- Antoine Fuqua
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art. -- George Bernard Shaw
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature"¦ the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God. -- H. L. Mencken
I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music. -- Brooke Fraser
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent. -- Oscar Wilde
The true artist regards his work as a means of talking with men [and women], of saying his say to himself and to others. It is not a question of pay... -- Robert Henri
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself. -- Oscar Wilde
An artist's career doesn't happen in the cycle of one week of news. An artist's career happens in a lifetime, and if you're a true artist you're willing to die for what you believe in. -- Kanye West
I say that the true artist-seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own sacred human consciousness. -- J. D. Salinger

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