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I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day. -- Jean-Michel Basquiat
You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy. -- Anna Deavere Smith
I think it's really important for real artists to make sure they're honest. -- Pixie Lott
My sisters and I like a lot of different styles of music, but we're inspired by real artists like Beyonce and Adele. -- China Anne McClain
I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically. -- Amber Heard
I love music that has good catchy choruses and fits into many different genres. ... I like real artists, that write their own material and are great performers. -- Perez Hilton
Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway. -- Julia Cameron
I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician. -- Toni Morrison
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators. -- Igor Stravinsky
Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy. -- Johnny Winter
There have been makeup artists who've asked if my eyebrows are real. -- Peter Gallagher
Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists. -- Victor Pinchuk
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. -- Josh Peck
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Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists. -- Donal Henahan
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. -- Sebastian Bach
I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to. -- Bryan White
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them. -- Aaron Carter
I've grown up with country music. I love how real everybody is, not just the artists, but the fans. -- Julianne Hough
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
And I hate to see artists who are real safe. I love to see artists swing for the fences sometimes. -- Lee Ann Womack
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all. -- Walt Whitman
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power. -- Ben Okri
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
Music is real when it goes inside you. You know when you really love someone, and you look into their eyes and you know it's real? Even though I'm an electronic artist, I wanna keep it real. -- Eva Simons
I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person. -- Lady Starlight
An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss. -- Daniel Pauly
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. -- Steve Irwin
There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. -- Susan Orlean
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. -- Marguerite Duras
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. -- S. Jay Olshansky
I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. -- William Jackson
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change -- William S. Burroughs
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts. -- Rudolf Steiner
I want to be a manager for new artists, get real estate... -- Lil Boosie
Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves. -- Joanna Russ
Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists -- Donal Henahan
If we can't, as artists, improve on real life, we should put down our pencils and go bake bread. -- Barbara Kingsolver
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. -- William S. Burroughs
A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. -- David Lynch
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people. -- John Hawkes
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion? -- Paolo Sorrentino
The type of pop culture that is honestly very moving and powerful to me is [when artists] do their homework. They make it real. -- David Rees
When I was young, I remember feeling a real thirst for opportunities around the arts, for learning about how artists function and how institutions work. -- Rashid Johnson
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real. -- Gianni Versace
I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing. -- Bill Gaither
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Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real. -- Bruce Springsteen

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