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An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
J. D. Salinger

Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
Stevie Nicks

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
Chuck Close

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
Chuck Close

I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
Michael Palin

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
John Frusciante

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.
Paul Valery

Reading is an art form, and every man can be an artist.
Edwin Louis Cole

I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
Erykah Badu

I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen.
Erykah Badu

I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I will work as an artist to survive in this world.
Erykah Badu

When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.
Jackson Pollock

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
Jackson Pollock

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
Jackson Pollock

Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock

If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
Siobhan Fahey

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
Miles Davis

To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
Jasper Johns

That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind.
James Taylor

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