- Gucci
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it's something quite low-key then I'll often do my own makeup. But for something like a premiere, it's good to have a makeup artist because they know what they're doing.
- Nov 07, 2020
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
- Buys
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- Nov 07, 2020
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to be an artist. I was studying art. I wanted to be a great painter. When I went into the Navy, there wasn't much to draw at sea. So I began writing, and I began reading a lot.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.
- Craft
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020