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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
- I Can
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
- Graphic Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My synesthesia is mostly gone - it was a much bigger factor when I was a kid. But having no depth perception is a bonus when you're trying to lay out flat images and describe them to an artist - flat is all I see.
- Craftsman
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not an artist. I am a craftsman.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I know I wanna go is being consistent on business, and that's just making another artist, my clothing line - capitalizing off the moment. I wanna be consistently doing that - capitalizing off every move I make.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020