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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
- Fight
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I'm a martial artist, and I don't train because I have a fight; I train because it's my lifestyle, and I'll train every day if I'm not hurt.
- Life
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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.
- Heart
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The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
- Job
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The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery in it, and sort of midwife that mystery into the story in such a way that it isn't damaged in the process, and may even get heightened or refined.
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I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.
- I Am
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The thing is, I'll always be a touring artist. It's what I am; that's what I love doing.
- Art
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A great artist is always before his time or behind it.
- Possible
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Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.
- Physician
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To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
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