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Financial crisis is the moment of truth for real collectors and true artists. -- Victor Pinchuk
Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire. -- John Dewey
People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists. -- Russell Simmons
In the inner place where true artists create there exists a pure child. -- Lawren Harris
There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days. -- Joris-Karl Huysmans
All true artists, bear within themselves a deeply rooted and often unconscious desire for transformation. -- Michael Chekhov
What is it at which all true artists are aiming? It is life, it is reality. -- John Edgar Park
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. -- Eckhart Tolle
If you intend on building a solid career, it's best to not worry about the major label approach. It's a trade-off that most true artists shouldn't have to make. -- Raheem Jarbo
I see a lot of true artists... then you see them on the cover of Maxim. That's the lowest of low to me. I would never do anything like that. -- Cheyenne Kimball
They[ Lana and Andy Wachowski]are true artists. They really are trying to say something and trying to create something original, and there aren't that many people who do that. -- Daryl Hannah
Most true artists care about music as a pure, passionate art form, but can get caught in the trap of the business. Which, sadly, has now become more important than the artist or even the music itself. -- Rosanna Arquette
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge. -- Albert Camus
Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios. -- Vincent Cassel
It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes. -- Randy Houser
All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video. -- Sonu Nigam
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
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist. -- Albert Einstein
If I was just to shut up, I wouldn't be a true artist. -- ASAP Ferg
True artists are almost the only men who do their work for pleasure. -- Auguste Rodin
An artist should remain true. Otherwise his talent, like his stomach, grows fat and stuffy. -- Norman Reilly Raine
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true. -- Laurie Anderson
I think this is true for all artists. My senses are very important to me. -- Sharon Olds
Richard Avedon is a true genius of photography and one of the greatest artists of our time. -- Donatella Versace
That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power. -- Anna Deavere Smith
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely. -- Yoko Ono
To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. -- Brad Paisley
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true. -- John Berger
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
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
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was. -- Ziggy Marley
True artists scorn nothing. -- Albert Camus
True artists unburden their envies and work toward encouraging amateurs. -- Aniruddha Sastikar
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work. -- Robert Genn
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists. -- Bill Jay
True poets, like great artists, have scarcely any childhood, and no old age. -- Sophie Swetchine
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children. -- Ned Rorem
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity. -- Tony Campolo
The ad business has some of the great artists, but because there are so many, its hard to determine the true gems. -- Steve Stoute
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
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself. -- Alan Moore
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts. -- Quentin Crisp
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
There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others. -- Janet Jackson
In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time. -- Mikhail Sholokhov
I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life. -- Amanda Palmer
Country music artists are staying true to their roots, keeping it country but throwing a little bit of rock flair in there which I think is a good thing. -- Jason Aldean
I really don't have a theme when I start a sculpture. The rock guides me to the final sculpture. I think that is true for many creative sculpture artists. -- Jimmy Carl Black

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