- Being
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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
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need a big ego to be an artist.
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hated school. I travelled so much in my early years that I didn't understand the process. I felt suffocated - not like I was some grandiose artist; I just felt like an alien.
- Leisure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
- Language
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To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.
- Company
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new artist is meeting the general public before they meet the record company. They're able to put the material on YouTube and have a million views before they even meet an executive at a record company, and get the deal based on that.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I put out my first mixtape, '50 Cent is the Future,' it was the first tape where an artist did the entire tape in song format.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's cool to see a bunch of brown kids in the crowd. I wanna be a brown artist that they look up to. I didn't see that many artists with my same culture that I looked up to when I was growing up. The industry has always been whitewashed.
- Nov 07, 2020