- Doll
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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
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mike Judge, who I've become friends with over the years never took himself seriously as an artist.
- Art Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.
- Happens
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an artist who happens to be gay.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no such thing as 'sissy bounce.' We don't separate it here in New Orleans at all. It's just bounce music. Just because I'm a gay artist, they don't have to put it in a category or label it.
- Song
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, being the artist and not knowing when you sometimes create a song, you don't think about whether it's gonna start controversy or whatever. Sometimes you just write and you're in the zone.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Musically, I'm always gonna take it a little farther, and Lord willing, people are gonna get that and understand that: that there's not really one genre I'm trying to be in, but just as a producer, as a writer, as an artist, that I'm planning on going farther.
- Drive
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no real network, and every city in Mississippi is so spread out, so it isn't easy to drive around and pass out CDs. So when an artist from Natchez or Gold Coast or Meridian breaks out, they already know exactly what kind of artist they want to be. The grind and the hustle is just so adamant.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The transition from fan to performer to recording artist, for me, was like learning how to dive... and each board got higher and higher.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020