- 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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've grown, and my passion for music has grown. I've become more advanced and I've enhanced my vocabulary. All around artist development.
- Nov 07, 2020
People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.
- Nov 07, 2020
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first artist whose music I really got into was Paolo Nutini. When his album 'Sunny Side Up' came out, I think I listened to it on repeat for, like, six months.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more life you have, the more it's in your pores, the more able you are to be creative as an artist.
- Husband
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- Nov 07, 2020
My husband is a martial artist, and he thinks it's hilarious that I have a stage-fighting-proficiency certificate. He thinks that's ridiculous. Can't say I've used it much.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
- Concert Hall
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the corner of 57th and 7th Avenue sits the most famous concert hall in the world. No less a figure than when Tchaikovsky led the first performances in 1891. Virtually every major artist has performed there. There is simply no place like it. The first time I stepped foot in Carnegie Hall was in 1964.
- Contemporary World
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- Nov 07, 2020
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
- Demolish
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist.
- Active
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- Nov 07, 2020