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A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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TERRY PRATCHETT I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
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I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified ac...
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I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.
E.A. BUCCHIANERI The world is looking for something new, and that could be you. Be yourself, be original
SOTONYE ANGA If an artist names something when you are drawing or painting, you alter your perception of it.
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All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I&#...
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ETHEL KENNEDY I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be ...
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ROBERT PLANT To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college,...
ED ASNER![]()
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I rea...
JANIS JOPLIN![]()
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opin...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT![]()
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never ev...
AMY CHUA![]()
I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always sec...
CHARLIE PUTH![]()
The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo a...
JOHN MCENROE![]()
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It...
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Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn't thinking about giving someone a kidney. ...
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If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had someth...
PALMER LUCKEY I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You a...
MICKALENE THOMAS I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.
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I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was someth...
HOLLY BLACK![]()
It wasn't supposed to work - being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. T...
KELSEA BALLERINI![]()
A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to kn...
BURNING SPEAR I'm very much a believer in the character always heading for something or after something. But t...
MONICA DOLAN![]()
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist...
ZADIE SMITH![]()
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married."
"I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really creat...
ADAM SCHLESINGER I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have r...
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GARY HUME![]()
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out...
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were...
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DICK GREGORY
NATASHA LITTLE
To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR
There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, ... MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN A lot of people thought my career was over. If you're not releasing records, then something must...
MAXWELL
I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an... DAVID S. GOYER
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art i... DAVID HOCKNEY
A lie was something you told because you were mean or a coward. A story was something yo...
BETTY SMITH I've been satisfied with a piece, but as an artist, you also feel like there's always something you ...
CORYNNE WARE
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel l... PARKER POSEY
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It's to be used as a tool for an ... PHILIPPE PETIT I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, ...
MARGARET KEANE
To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He thought other artists were like him, who could see something in another artist and take it.
HUGO CHAPMAN
It's not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would muc... TERRY PRATCHETT I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.
DUSTIN YELLIN
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exa... REED HUNDT
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was r...
SEAN SCULLY
Can you have it all, as a woman? Can you be a creative artist and have stability and a home life? Ho... CATHERINE HARDWICKE
Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even af... CONNOR FRANTA
The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in you... CYNTHIA WEIL
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going t...
GABRIEL BASSO Where I come from, if you weren't a drag queen or a radical thinker or a performance artist of s...
IO TILLETT WRIGHT
I'd never met a woman I considered as intelligent as me. That sounds bigheaded, but every woman I me... JOHN LENNON
An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a ... FERNANDO BOTERO Yeah, it makes it a little easier to follow those guys. But you know, those guys had to be the leade...
GREG OSTERTAG I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - an...
DAVID KNOPFLER
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman ... JAY-Z
My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of th... ALBERT BROOKS
We wanted something different this year. We're still keeping the musicianship, as opposed to it bein... CRAIG FERGUSON
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and lea... LEONORA CARRINGTON People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. ...
MITCHEL MUSSO
In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I w... SOLANGE KNOWLES When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, i...
DICK BUTKUS When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, i...
DICK BUTKUS Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it...
DREE HEMINGWAY
People have always said that I could have been a highly successful pop artist, if only that were my ... TODD RUNDGREN
I've passed up on many a thing that could have made me a big artist or something. Like, I was of... CHARLI XCX I wish I was this dark genius artist - like Richard Pryor or something.
ARTIE LANGE Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn'...
RACHEL PLATTEN When I was very, very young, seven years old, I heard there was school where you could go to learn t...
DAVID COVERDALE It was an idea, I thought, that could almost be written as a helping tool. People seemed to like the...
FLORENCE SEIDELMAN
I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but t... KAMI GARCIA I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anyt...
LAURA OSNES
You dream and hope that you could do something like that, but I didn't imagine that it would happen.... PETE WENTZ When I was at school, you had to choose; there was a lot of pressure to assimilate. You were an Auss...
JONATHAN LAPAGLIA It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an ...
IMRAN AMED Country taught me how to sing, it put me on a path. But I was never going to be locked into a formul...
EMMYLOU HARRIS
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say. KARA WALKER
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something... TOM FORD
I never went to drama school, I don't have any certificates saying: 'He's a qualified ac... HUGH LAURIE I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of t...
MEL TORME
I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd. E.A. BUCCHIANERI The world is looking for something new, and that could be you. Be yourself, be original
SOTONYE ANGA If an artist names something when you are drawing or painting, you alter your perception of it.
JIM GENOVESE
All my life, I was even just wanted to attend the Grammys, like, just be there, so the fact that I&#... TORI KELLY I knew David Lynch going to television was going to be something. It was either going to not work, n...
MADCHEN AMICK When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start...
DANIEL JOHNSTON I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had i...
HENRY OSSAWA TANNER
The Kennedys were very organized. Dinner was always served at 7:15, and if you were a minute late, i... ETHEL KENNEDY I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be ...
ADA YONATH
I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist w... RYAN MCGINLEY
The reason I did fashion was it was the only way to get paid to do anything creative. You couldn'... DAVID BAILEY No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's somethin...
ROBERT PLANT To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy
"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD
Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college,... ED ASNER
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I rea... JANIS JOPLIN
Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opin... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never ev... AMY CHUA
I came out to L.A. to be a songwriter and not an artist, and I'm so excited because I always sec... CHARLIE PUTH
The greatest compliment I ever got was when people called me an artist, and I understand that solo a... JOHN MCENROE
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It... JIM ROHN I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like ...
T.I. I thought it would either be really close, or if we could run, it'd be pretty much a blow out. We we...
CARYN JAROCKI
Ryan is an amazing person. When I was his age, I wasn't thinking about giving someone a kidney. ... GRIZZ CHAPMAN
If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had someth... PALMER LUCKEY I don't think an artist should always know why they gravitate toward something or someone. You a...
MICKALENE THOMAS I'm not looking to be an artist to make money. I'm looking to be an artist.
ESTER DEAN
I thought weirdness was a good thing. I don't mean that defensively, either. I thought it was someth... HOLLY BLACK
It wasn't supposed to work - being a new artist, a female artist, an artist on an independent. T... KELSEA BALLERINI
A lot of things encouraged me to start my label. I think it's very important for an artist to kn... BURNING SPEAR I'm very much a believer in the character always heading for something or after something. But t...
MONICA DOLAN
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist... ZADIE SMITH
You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married.""I...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really creat...
ADAM SCHLESINGER I never learned management. I never went to business school. I'm an artist. I happened to have r...
BOBBI BROWN I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, ...
GARY HUME
I'm not an example for how people should live their lives. Never in my life would I ever set out... LIL WAYNE
If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, ... JAMES MCNEILL WHISTLER
A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist. LADY GAGA
I don't want to look back and be like, 'You had it all, and you weren't even present for... MACKLEMORE
You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, ... RUFUS WAINWRIGHT 'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bas...
LAURA WADE I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't...
EDWARD HERRMANN
I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were... DAVID CRONENBERG We thought I was going to be a great athlete, and we were wrong, and I thought I was going to be a g...
DICK GREGORY
