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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
- Choices
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved the idea of Bowie as an artist, with his Burroughsian cut-up technique, creating these undecipherable, abstract songs, where we all projected our own meanings onto his jarring word choices and unexpected chord changes.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.
- Half Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.
- Nobody
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was nobody telling me, 'You should be an artist,' or, 'You should be an actor.'
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.
- Designer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not an artist. I'm a fashion designer of clothes.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was delivering papers when I was, like, 10 or 11, and I'd always daydream about being an artist as a full-time thing.
- Nov 07, 2020
Kendrick is a true genius artist.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020