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• One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women.

  Jerry Saltz

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• Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I’ve never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.

  Jerry Saltz

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• I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.

  Jerry Saltz

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• Giorgio Morandi’s paintings make me think that artists may not totally choose, or even control, their subjects or style.

  Jerry Saltz

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• Artists are the serfs of a leisure society.

  Bauvard

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• The opportunity to record the song came when Phil Collins’ record label, Atlantic, was doing a tribute album to him and they asked all these different artists to do renditions of his songs.

  Deborah Cox

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• But with rap music – not just N.W.A. – but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.

  Ice Cube

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• These people are artists. These people are musicians. They’re taking it out and trying to express it that way.

  Brian Hugh Warner

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• Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn’t kicking down the door; it’s building your own.

  Brian Celio

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• I’m sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I’ll enjoy the CD.

  Brian Austin Green

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• James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

  Brian Austin Green

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• I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.

  Brandon Boyd

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• The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.

  Brad Holland

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• The truth is, we haven’t really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We’re all experiments.

  Brad Holland

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• Gospel artists are messengers; they are vessels of a message.

  Boris Kodjoe

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• Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.

  Boris Kodjoe

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• I made a lot mistakes that I’m grateful for, because I won’t make them again and I won’t let my artists make them, or I’ll tell them, ‘Don’t do this.’ A lot of them still make them anyway, but you can’t be told things when you’re doing your own thing.

  Fred Durst

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• For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.

  Black Francis

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• I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

  Big Jim Sullivan

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• There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the ’90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.

  Andrew Bird

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