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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
- Never
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Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.
- Mom
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My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
- Even
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I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist.
- People
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New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and... it's all about the people that you get exposed to.
- I Am
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Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.
- Music
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TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.
- Guitar
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For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?
- Music
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For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.
- Dream
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If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.
- Kanye West
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Kanye West is my favorite artist.
- Life
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For Dylan, it seems, life is always the next gig. Changing pace and location are essential to his survival as an artist.
- Eyes
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Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
- Ignorance
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Bohemia isn't somewhere an artist runs to escape society. It's a place where like-minded artists gather to plot the downfall of dogma and ignorance.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020