- Outside
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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
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would think, as an artist, it's inescapable that you'll be affected by the world around you.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.
- Confine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
- At Least One
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.
- Hopes
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- Nov 07, 2020
My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
- Honor
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have another aspect of my career where I'm a scholar of Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and I'll say that when you study Yiddish literature, you know a whole lot about forgotten writers. Most of the books on my shelves were literally saved from the garbage. I am sort of very aware of what it means to be a forgotten artist in that sense.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think Chicago people are very special people, and the Midwest's confluence of East Coast-meets-Midwest sensibilities had to, on a formative level, inform me as an artist and an actor. In that sense, it had to have helped me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
After working on 'Europa,' I found it incredibly freeing to speak English in a film, so it kind of sparked an interest in me as an artist to improve my acting.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020