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It's hard to separate art from artists so transgender musicians will never be mainstream until transpeople are looked at as notable as maybe redheads. -- Willam Belli
While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow. -- Joshua Reynolds
I intensely dislike the word 'critic,' because it puts you in an antagonistic position to artists. I've learned everything that I know about art from artists... I see myself as an advocate and an activist and a writer. -- Lucy R. Lippard
I'm really into California art from the '60s. I like a lot of Bay Area artists, like Nathan Oliveira and Bruce Conner. -- Barry McGee
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? -- Lou Reed
Hip-hop is such a disposable art form from a business standpoint. It never treats its artists as art; it never treats its product as art. -- Questlove
If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting. -- Jessye Norman
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. -- Ezra Pound
Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism. -- Russell Smith
I look at a lot of artists. I'm inspired by - I suppose I shouldn't say 'inspired,' but it's not really influenced. I am inspired. Art comes from art. -- Cy Twombly
The aim of every authentic artist is not to conform to the history of art, but to release himself from it in order to replace it with his own history. -- Harold Rosenberg
Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece. -- Denis Waitley
Seriously, I wanted to be an artist because I saw that it meant endless possibilities. I came from a badly managed family background, so art was a way of reinventing myself. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art. -- Piet Mondrian
Somebody said us artists have trouble with success because art is derived from struggle. I disagree with that, because truely doing your art is success, whether you make money from it or not. -- Joe Murray
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say. -- Octavio Paz
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't. -- Brad Holland
I am an artist, you understand? For me, a picture is like poetry. When you make art, this is not coming from an intellectual place. It's coming from the deep side of your unconscious, your soul. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
I would begin by collecting lithographs and etchings. It's a way of coming in and benefiting from real quality art. Even younger artists make wonderful prints. Prints can become very valuable. That's how I began collecting. -- Arne Glimcher
Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about. -- Brandon Boyd
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that. -- Jack Bowman
The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists. -- Daniel Boulud
I thought, 'A biennial needs artists. I'm going to do an international biennial; I need artists from all around the world.' So what I did was I invented a hundred artists from around the world. I figured out their bios, their passions in life and their art styles, and I started making their work. -- Shea Hembrey
There's nothing more tragic than artists from the 70s still doing art from the 70s. -- Marina Abramovic
As artists, the pleasure is to really have your work resonate and mean something. Art takes its inspiration from reality. -- Yareli Arizmendi
My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all. -- Tracey Emin

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