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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
- Think
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When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.
- Great
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A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
- Hard Thing
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
- Men
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
- Only
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
- Being
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
- Desire
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'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
- Love
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'Stans' can not see anything wrong with their favorite artist. They love everything they do. If the artist fart, they're like, 'OMG, that was the best-sounding fart I ever heard in my life. She farted on beat,' whatever. I'm an 'objective fan,' so I can give my opinion about things.
- Camera
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For me, being a complete artist means not necessarily just being in front of the camera, but being behind the camera or being the originator or creator of something.
- Path
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When you're a Chicago artist, to play Lollapalooza, that's not a normal thing. It's artists on a path to a certain place that do that. Chief Keef did it; Kids These Days did it; Cool Kids did it. And I'm the next Cool-Kids-Chief, if you will.
- Hands
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I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.
- Music
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My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.
- Favorite
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Jeremih has been my favorite artist to collab with.
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