- 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.
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Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.
- Every Man
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Every man is an artist.
- Person
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Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
- Italy
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In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
- Good
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I have no regrets, though I was the first artist to stylize the national anthem, and I got a lot of protests for it. I have no regrets. America has been good to me. I'm glad that I'm here.
- Pride
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I take pride in the fact that I was the first Hispanic artist to really crack the English market.
- Friends
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I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
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I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.
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I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.
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My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.
- Just
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Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.
- Light
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If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right light... it's essential.
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