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• The mind is essentially a survival machine. Attack and defense against other minds, gathering, storing, and analyzing information - this is what it is good at, but it is not at all creative. All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Artist, Creative, Survival

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.24, New World Library

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• I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.

  Randy Houser

  Writing, Artist, Play

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• I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.

  Alessia Cara

  Girl, Song, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being unique seems more desirable than ever. People are exhausted by clichés, by platitudes, by mass-produced realities, by what's been done and done and done. The role of a true artist is to present their own unique vision, and so it has always made sense to me that works of art should be radical.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Art, Reality, Unique

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My dad [Johnny Cash] went to the [Richard] Nixon White House and refused to sing "Welfare Cadillac" (instead performing the anti-war songs "The Ballad of Ira Hayes" and "Man in Black"). He protested the Vietnam War, but he went to perform for the troops with bombs dropping all around him. He had that kind of genius: a true artist's capacity for holding two opposing thoughts at once while being large enough to encompass all realities.

  Rosanne Cash

  Song, Dad, War

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• I think if you're a creative person, then you're always kinda looking to move things along - 'Where else can I go? Where can I take this?' From painters to photographers - anything creative in the arts - if you're a true artist, I think you'll always look to do something else. 'Where else can I go with it?' Do you know what I mean?

  Paul Weller

  Art, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers.

  Isaac Asimov

  Art, Two, People

  "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov. Chapter 25, 1983.

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• 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

  Artist, Careers, Worry

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• A true artist is practically married to his or her art form so I just couldn't turn my back on it.

  St. Lucia

  Art, Married, Form

  Source: arcthemagazine.com

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• Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.

  Quincy Jones

  Artist, Gone, World

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• 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

  Artist, Lows, Maxims

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• Like a true artist, never be satisfied that your writing cannot be improved.

  Andrew McAleer

  Writing, Artist, Satisfied

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• The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Art, Artist, Demand

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• People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

  Russell Simmons

  Artist, People, Blame

  "More Questions with Russell Simmons". content.time.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Of course Nebraska is a storehouse of literary material. Everywhere is a storehouse of literary material. If a true artist were born in a pigpen and raised in a sty, he would still find plenty of inspiration for his work. The only need is the eye to see.

  Willa Cather

  Inspiration, Eye, Artist

  Willa Cather (1990). “Willa Cather in Person: Interviews, Speeches, and Letters”, p.46, U of Nebraska Press

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• The True Artist has the planet for his pedestal; the adventurer, after years of strife, has nothing broader than his shoes.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Adventure, Years

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Wallace E. Williams, Joseph Slater (1987). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men: seven lectures”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• A true artist is an ugly man.

  Osamu Dazai

  Artist, Men, Ugly

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• How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.

  George Thorogood

  Artist, Rays, Bob

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Hypnotically haunting sounds from a true artist that dares to dream.

  John Lindberg

  Dream, Artist, Sound

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• Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.

  Dean Koontz

  Writing, Artist, Advice

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• One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body or total mastery of all aspects of the art form, but on the stage they possessed magnetism-true artistry, by which I mean a charismatic quality. You can work with a coach to try and develop it, but a true artist has the ability to express his inner feelings naturally.

  Fernando Bujones

  Art, Stars, Mean

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the loaded stalls... searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor... What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.

  Keith Floyd

  Patience, Art, Food

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• A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Art, Children

  Man and Superman (1903) act 1

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• Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.

  Piet Mondrian

  Artist, Color, Lines

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• If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Fall, Artist

  "Kid Cudi wants you to readjust your mind with inspirational words from JFK" by Nadeska Alexis, www.mtv.com. August 7, 2015.

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