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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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I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer.
- Hurt
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Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
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In the case of, like, Childish Gambino, he is someone who is a writer by trade, so he is very meticulous about how he writes his ideas. I don't do this with a lot of artist, but he would give me a treatment that he wants to do, and I'll go off that; then I'll give him feedback and pitch him my ideas.
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In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.
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I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.
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An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
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I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
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I'm a fighter now. I'm officially a mixed martial artist. I'm not a wrestler no more.
- Expression
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It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
- Language
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An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
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