- 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
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
A friend of mine put me in contact with the artist Baaba Maal.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
- General
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a songwriter-singer. I'm very vocal oriented, of course, but songwriting - no matter whether it's for myself or another artist - is of paramount importance to it all.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always working my own thing. A few times a week - I try to not go too crazy - I'm working with some other artist. But I'm constantly working my own stuff, and my own stuff seems to come in little bursts.
- Harbors
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- Nov 07, 2020
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020