- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Artist Quotes
The discipline and feeling behind making art.
This group of quotes describes the artist as someone shaped by training as much as instinct, whether that means starting a project from a visual idea or treating color and sound as tools for emotion. It pairs naturally with our broader Art quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Monk
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.
- Performance
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
- Moody
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was more than just a moody artist.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in touch with that grain rather than simply feel its flow. And he really can't cut right across it anyway.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is said that no star is a heroine to her makeup artist.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better.
- Photographer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
- Nov 07, 2020
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020