Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.


Lionel Trilling

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Subjective artists are one-eyed, but objective artists are blind.
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As long as artists can make something, artists will continue to survive.
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Real artists ship.
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Artists walk alone.
EZRA MILLER
We are hoping it will be an outlet for our work and have artists meet other artists.
JOYCE ALBRECHT
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
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We are a race of artists. What are we doing about it?
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The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
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Bad artists always admire each others work.
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
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Whoever says artists can't deal with corporate pressures because they have frail minds, is missing o...
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Identity is theft of the self
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Genius can probably run on ahead and seek out new ways; but the good artists who follow after genius...
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Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
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these fabulous artists command fantastic fees.
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Many artists already see their paintings as having dimensional depths. The 3-D is a tool to let the ...
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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.
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He is one of the more venerated artists. He is very well known in the hip-hop steam.
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All of these artists have made names for themselves and are well-known. They have different styles, ...
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Now you have to find the great things that are being done by young artists, whoever is of the best q...
BARRY FRIEDMAN
How could we not? ... The Whitney for 70 years has followed the instincts of American artists.
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It's all about bringing forth new artists and young artists that are fresh and have something to off...
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Aren't the artists brave to go out and paint a sea as rough as that? I don't see how he kept his can...
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Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning
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Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much
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To me, this is about sticking to my guns and keeping my word to the artists involved.
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Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914
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How do we get better artists? Show them they are appreciated.
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He was the first to put these four pieces together and I think we can expect other artists put toget...
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These artists didn't live in a vacuum. There was a lot more exchange between artists and institution...
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When they were both older artists, they had reached a kind of eminence and recognized that they were...
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Clearly we don't want those families to be taken advantage of by scoundrels or scam artists.
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All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
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Marion's an artistic town. But we don't say we're artists. We just paint.
DON COLEY
Dead artists always bring out an older, richer crowd.
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EDDY CUE
The artists in the gallery said, Get the gallery moved. They realized the old gallery was going to c...
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But 30 years ago there was nothing. No way for artists to connect, to exhibit together and, most imp...
ELSIE RALPH
There were at least 500-600 proposals after our initial call to artists in early January. We approve...
ERIC FRIEDMAN
My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
JOHNNY RAMONE
A number of major artists said they'd like to be part of my last festival and it was an offer I coul...
BRIAN MCMASTER
I've been around a lot of celebrities, and I've been fortunate to be around great artists. It's extr...
DAVID LEAF
I'm respectful of other artists and I think there is a way to talk to actors to let them know they a...
DEBBIE ALLEN
The VCCA has kept to its mission as well as any arts group I know. That mission is helping artists d...
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I did not want to go back for any more loans. If that meant taking artists off salary, that's what I...
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You can make your own records and videos [inexpensively]. It means that artists sell on their merits...
GUY GARVEY
There's not the same name recognition for Native artists as there is for the more mainstream . . . l...
FRANK GOODYEAR
It's the most dedicated group of artists I've ever met. I haven't heard from any of their agents. Th...
GARRY MARSHALL
Churches and venues end up with top-notch artists to fill their openings, as well as 50 percent of e...
GARY LEMASTER
Everything is an original piece for the show. We have a lot of artists who haven't shown in Milwauke...
FAYTHE LEVINE
We are honored to have one of this nation's greatest artists not only bestow his most cherished pian...
DUKE BLACKWOOD
They cull hundreds of foreign films by new artists.
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Artists," he said, "are people who say, 'I can't fix my country or my state or my city, or even my m...
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But what does this offensive into the North American market mean to the artists themselves?
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I think it's popular for a number of reasons. The artists are the main draw and for 80 percent of th...
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They hired artists to just copy this same figure over and over, which isn't too creative.
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It's totally in the hands of the artists. These are all very popular shows, so no matter what, the g...
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There's so many amazing artists to choose from, you want to keep the mix new every year.
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We keep them fed. We've been told lots of times that we're the festival that feeds the artists the b...
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LIONEL SUGGS
Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage...
LIONEL SHRIVER
His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic...
LIONEL SHRIVER
Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
LIONEL SHRIVER
I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.
LIONEL BARRYMORE
That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
LIONEL SHRIVER
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
LIONEL SHRIVER
On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of...
LIONEL MESSI
I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, perso...
LIONEL SOSA
When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply unders...
LIONEL SUGGS
Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of wha...
LIONEL SUGGS
Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason...
LIONEL SUGGS
I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was in...
LIONEL RICHIE
My earliest memories of country music are the Grand Ole Opry.
LIONEL RICHIE
The secrets of the universe aren't really secrets. It's just that humanity is too subjugated by thei...
LIONEL SUGGS
I feel that the Christian experience and the Jewish one have much to give each other. If this open s...
LIONEL BLUE
Praying privately in churches, I began to discover that heaven was my true home and also that it was...
LIONEL BLUE
I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.
LIONEL BLUE
To make a statement that one knows is false is more honest than to make a statement that one knows i...
LIONEL SUGGS
When you value someone, it merely shows that you truly have no idea about the person that they aren'...
LIONEL SUGGS
People lie to adapt...
LIONEL SUGGS
I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people t...
LIONEL SUGGS
Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi...
LIONEL SHRIVER
What would I have done if I'd been put to the test? Would I have risked my own life for people I...
LIONEL BLUE
I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.
LIONEL BLUE
The real evidence is not practically speaking in scholarship but in how Jesus and the Christianity b...
LIONEL BLUE
If your enemy has the power to see into the future, make sure you are the author of that future.
LIONEL SUGGS
When God plays chess, you will notice that he never has to move a single piece...in order to win.
LIONEL SUGGS
To withdraw isn't a sign of weakness... It is a sign that a man knows the limits of his capabilities...
LIONEL SUGGS
If you drop assumptions, and can anticipate the possibilities, you can master the art of strategy. H...
LIONEL SUGGS
Strategy is methodical, but the one who steers chaos and randomness can steer God.
LIONEL SUGGS