Top 60 Quotes About A Con Artist

#1. I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!

Matt Squire

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#2. Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

Bono

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#3. Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of an American art form, a free and individual spirit, and an artist of worldwide fame, his great talents and magnificent spirit added richness and pleasure to all our lives.

Richard M. Nixon

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#4. I like to call myself a 360-degree artist. I'm a musician, but I have other things I do, too.

Rita Ora

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#5. In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

Julia Cameron

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#6. Ya wanna be an artist? Make art!

Kay WalkingStick

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#7. Andy [Warhol] was on the scene, but he wasn't an artist at first; he was more an illustrator. He was always surrounded by about ten people who worshipped him. He'd go to a party and they would all come along. But he was drawing shoes and that sort of thing.

Claes Oldenburg

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#8. If one defends the bourgeois, philistine virtues, one does not defend them merely from the demonism or bohemianism of the artist but from the present bourgeoisie itself.

Lionel Trilling

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#9. The reason I put make-up on or wear the costume is to try and find my own style. It's like my guitar style - I'm just trying to be an original artist.

Miyavi

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#10. Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

Eric Maisel

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#11. Fatima's hair, what was left of it, had pulled free of the coil into which she'd put it before striking the match. Her face was now black and shiny, as if an artist commissioned to lacquer the eyes of a statue of

Katherine Boo

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#12. Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.

Lauren Oliver

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#13. It's nice that people can call me an artist and it's nice that I can refer to myself as such, but it also kind of separates me from the common man in a way that I don't wish to be, so craftsperson makes me feel a bit more connected.

Matana Roberts

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#14. I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.

Jane Siberry

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#15. I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can.

Trey Songz

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#16. Unquestionably, this drug is is very useful to the artist, activating trains of association that would otherwise be inaccessible, and I owe many of the scenes in Naked Lunch directly to the use of cannabis.

William Burroughs

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#17. I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.

Joe Nichols

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#18. Being an artist is a lifestyle.

Wayne White

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#19. Once A. K. Coomaraswamy, the great twentieth-century Indian expert on traditional metaphysics and art, said that in modern society the artist is a special kind of person, while in traditional society every person is a special kind of artist.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr

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#20. Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.

Jessica Alba

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#21. 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

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#22. The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Thomas Aquinas

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#23. When you're an artist, you're expected to describe yourself in interviews every day in five words.

Halsey

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#24. Peter used to say that an artist's job is to make order out of chaos. You collect details, look for a pattern, and organize. You make sense out of senseless facts. You puzzle together bits of everything. You shuffle and reorganize. Collage. Montage. Assemble.

Chuck Palahniuk

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#25. I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

Hoodie Allen

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#26. As art reveals the artist more than the world, so you see yourself and what you are not in the mirror of another culture.

Jennifer Stone

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#27. I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.

T.I.

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#28. My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Lady Gaga

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#29. As a street artist, I'm used to sharing my stuff with the public. It's a communal experience. I've learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

Shepard Fairey

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#30. Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

Madeleine L'Engle

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#31. Grace, not willpower, is what ultimately empowers us to live loving lives. Creativity, both in what spawns within the artist and the artifact, can be a vital source of that grace.

Ronald Rolheiser

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#32. The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.

Mallory Ortberg

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#33. The disintegration of the culture starts with the artist. I'm on a crusade to turn the tide in the arts, to restore dignity to the arts and, by extension, to the culture.

Thomas Kinkade

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#34. Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.

Andrew Wyeth

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#35. The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

Leon Krier

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#36. The man who reacts to the universe with a cry of impotent anguish is acceptable as an artist only if he can persuade us that he has sanely considered the other possible reactions and found them inadequate.

Kenneth Tynan

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#37. It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

Barbra Streisand

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#38. As an artist, I can't be responsible for how people interpret material.

Vince Vaughn

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#39. I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.

Herbie Hancock

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#40. I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.

Robert Barry

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#41. Why should not the camera artist break away from the worn out conventions and claim the freedom of expression which any art must have to be alive.

Alvin Langdon Coburn

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#42. I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.

Wyndham Lewis

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#43. I had no idea the amount of people who even knew who I was. Suddenly, they were coming up and saying, "You're my favorite artist." Very surreal. After years of trying to get work, and then coming here and being able to meet some of the fans of Array.

Eric Wight

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#44. You have to do what you need to do as an artist. You have to have that courage.

Liz Phair

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#45. It always seemed to me," she said at last, "that it must require a great deal of courage to be an artist, if only because the creative process is such a lonely one. I should imagine it must be all the more difficult for a woman.

Richard Yates

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#46. Like a stage magician, the con artist misdirects suspicion. While everyone's watching for him to pull a rabbit out of a hat, he's actually sawing a girl in half. You think he's doing one trick when he's actually doing another.
You think that I'm dying, but I'm laughing at you.

Holly Black

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#47. You're a con artist. A liar. A thief. An unredeemable soul. You can't be reformed. You can't be saved. You'll die trying to make the world pay for what it did to you. And you'll die alone.

Karina Halle

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#48. Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump.

Marco Rubio

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#49. From now on, consider yourself a con artist.

Carsten Jensen

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#50. Don King was good to me through my years as champion, but I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw him. He's a wheeler dealer and you've got to be careful. He's a great con artist.

Larry Holmes

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#51. A con artist, a total imposter, had played on my desires for the Cinderella dream and won a Monopoly trip to jail. I had hoped for uprightness, integrity, and potentially a relationship. Longing overshadowed the voice of conscience.

Debra Moffitt

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#52. Donald Trump is not going to be the nominee, because we are not going to allow - people will wake up and we're not going to allow a con artist to take over the party of [Abraham] Lincoln and [Ronald] Reagan.

Marco Rubio

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#53. Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

Andy Griffith

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#54. I've been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.

Matt Bomer

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#55. A con artist's only weapon is his brain.

Frank W. Abagnale

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#56. In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I just wasn't that much of a con artist.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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#57. You called me a natural con artist and asked me what other secrets I was hiding. I didn't answer because I already knew, in some deep, primal way, what furtive truth you were referring to: That I was destined to fall in love with you.

Megan McCafferty

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#58. I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

John Lithgow

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#59. We're in an era where the demand is for immediate hits that are destined to become obsolescent. Six months later, everyone forgets the artist and the tune. It's become like a con job. Producers, engineers, lawyers and accountants all make money, but the artists don't.

Tony Bennett

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#60. And if you were a very sophisticated con artist, what would you do to convince people that you were from the future? What benefits would that give you? For us, it's also a question of, "Is she or isn't she?" That's really a major part of the movie.

Zal Batmanglij

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