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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
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I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
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To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
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My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.
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The inner artist is not the voice of reason. The inner artist can have wild and impossible ideas... The inner artist is not the voice of comfort.
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Other than the 'Sesame Street' soundtrack, which I was obsessed with, the first artist I really felt I'd discovered on my own was Amy Winehouse. She was the first female artist I wanted to write like and sing like and be like.
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When I was really young, I was convinced I wanted to be a visual artist. I would paint and draw and make crafts.
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I am an honest artist.
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To be an artist, you need to play inside your work.
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Every person, every artist makes his life an artwork.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
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In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.
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The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
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