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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.
- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
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- Nov 07, 2020