Artist Quotes
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If the photographer is not a discoverer, then he is not an artist.
Paul Strand -
I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
Iggy Azalea
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Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.
Wilson Pickett -
I don't think you should categorize yourself as an artist.
Laura Nyro -
My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
Bar Refaeli -
You're hot for two seconds, and you're struggling to get work again. If it were easy, I don't think that's a good place for an artist to work from.
Tatiana Maslany -
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
Odilon Redon -
I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
Angelina Jolie
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
Beatrice Dalle -
Leonard de Vinci, for example, is a great artist, but he is living in the past. However, I don't feel John Cage and Matsuzawa Yutaka as artists who live in the past. Their ideas are still alive in our world because they express the very important concerns of our age. That is why I could trust them as "contemporary artists".
Yasumasa Morimura -
You want to throw yourself in as many uncomfortable places as possible, if you want to build muscles in uncomfortable parts of your body and grow as an artist.
Hamish Linklater -
I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
Barbara Rosenblat -
My mum is an artist. I guess that helps; she's very supportive.
Sam Heughan
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It's valuable to me as an artist and actor to explore all kinds of outlets. So if a local filmmaker in Milwaukee had a good story, I'd be part of it in a second.
Tanya Fischer -
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
E. B. White -
At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Business is business. You know how that works. Because stations run on ad money. If they're playing a gay artist, then ad money dries up. So they have to be careful.
Bob Mould Hüsker Dü -
True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.
Oskar Kokoschka -
I went to Brown University, but my mom said I couldn't be an artist because I would starve.
Barry Sternlicht
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Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.
Tony Kushner -
I'm always trying to want to connect with fans and to connect them to each other. I mean, there's other things that I'm trying to do, but in terms of connectivity, that is really important to me. And I am a smaller artist still and there are people that are super passionate about my music, but not everyone in their circle knows about me. But yeah, I've always trying to find ways to connect fans to each other.
Alexandra Ashley Hughes Austra -
I was a dancer for about 14 years. I was a martial artist for the same amount of time. I quit that when I realized I should probably not get my nose broken anymore. I love trying new stuff. Now I'm loving archery, and I surf. I just like to explore new things, I guess. I'm a big kid!
Falk Hentschel -
I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
Oscar Isaac