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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
- Name
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I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.
- Evolve
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- Nov 07, 2020
You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
- Degrading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.
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- Nov 07, 2020