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Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die. -- Rokia Traore
From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten. -- Chuck Palahniuk
There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort. -- Mark Matousek
Most famous artists are created by their work and the idea of them as a character, and if they're smart and ambitious, they reinforce that character because they want to win. They want their views to prevail. -- Dave Hickey
Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil. -- Jesse Harris
A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all. -- Bob Colacello
When I came to New York, I began to meet the people who became the most famous artists of our time. I was insecure about my own level of ability, I didn't know whether I could compete with these people and, at the same time. I was wondering what is this anyway? -- Henry Flynt
Many incredible artists die before they were famous. -- Yoko Ono
I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist. -- Nat King Cole
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments. -- Marilyn vos Savant
I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous. -- Daniel Johnston
I think that most people who are just artists, who are getting famous, would trade a lot of their fame back for some normalcy, pretty much immediately. -- Ansel Elgort
For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end. -- Tony Levin
Ursula Nordstrom was famous for finding artists in unlikely places. Maurice Sendak was a window designer, and she just came across one of his windows. Everyone was looking to find a talent. -- Peter Sis
Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.' -- CeeLo Green
I probably should have a brand, but I think you can't get the best artists to work for you if you're branded. I get the trade-off, and I really would like to be more famous for my work, get more credit for my achievements. -- Brian Grazer
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That's how I enjoyed fame in '74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous. -- Philippe Petit
When I got into the music industry, I wasn't focused on being the most famous artist or even getting a major record deal. It was just to make music on my own terms or create my own image, do my own hair, do my own makeup. -- Janelle Monae
I always thought it was strange when these artists like Kurt Cobain or whoever would get really famous and say, 'I don't understand why this is happening to me.' There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn't some magical thing that just started happening. -- Chad Kroeger
A lot of artists get famous overseas first. I don't know what it is here. I have a large underground following in the U.S., but I don't get the airplay as much as I do in, say, Australia. Over there, they can play whatever they like, it seems, but not so much here. -- Wynter Gordon
On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964. -- Leonard Slatkin
It wasn't not being famous any more, or even not being a recording artist. It was having nobody who needed me, no phones ringing, nothing to do. Because I'm still too young to do nothing. I was only 24 when all that happened. Now, at 40, I feel I've got more to give than I ever have. -- Gary Barlow
There's a famous artist, Ron English, in New York, that just, or Andy Warhol for that matter, that did pop art that terrorized society. And that's, for the last like 10, 15 years, that's all I wanted to do, is terrorize society and make them look into a mirror and see what the hell we have wrought. -- Al Jourgensen
I remember being so young I thought all artists were famous. -- Mary Ruefle
Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists. -- Bruce Dickinson
The difference between famous creators and struggling artists is that the creators know that improving the lives of others deserves the highest reward. -- Alan Cohen
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead. -- Wayne Gerard Trotman

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