- People
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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
- Back To School
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well and employs hundreds of thousands of people. What else am I going to do? I'm not an artist. I'm not a writer. I'm not a musician. I'd love to be a tennis player or musician. I'm not.
- Labor
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- Nov 07, 2020
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
- Impossible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020