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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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Self-censorship is the most devastating thing for an artist.
- Everything
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An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
- Producer
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You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.
- Liar
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I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
- Music
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Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because it's scary.
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I think it's important for every artist to have that ballad that stands the test of time.
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I'm really an artist. I really do this. I don't need the money. It doesn't matter to me.
- Control
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I see hip-hop as going in a self-managing place. It's very culturally controlled and artist-controlled. It's not really based on a label anymore. Everything is pretty much in the control of the artist. Which is amazing.
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The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they're going to sing about you.
- Nervous
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For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
- First Thing
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Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
- Selling
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