- Father
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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
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are the record label who owns Lady Gaga, and you have a new artist coming up, you can say, 'Let's have the artist play just before Gaga.' Now you've exposed the huge Gaga audience to the new artist. It's similar to showing a trailer before a movie. The hit creates a hit.
- Greatest Joys
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest joys of being an artist is that you start to see beauty where you didn't before, and once you start to see the world like that it stays with you.
- Decorative
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you grow up saying, 'I want to be a lawyer,' everyone says, 'Let's give her everything she needs to be a lawyer.' But if you say 'I want to be an artist or a dancer or a painter,' it's, 'Oh, she'll grow out of it.'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist in me welcomes another opportunity to be creative.
- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020