Artist Quotes
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Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind.
Gautama Buddha
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The reason you work as an artist is to stay open and ask questions.
Robert Wilson
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I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.
Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
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Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
Keariene Muizz
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In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
William Faulkner
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The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.
Sean O'Casey
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The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.
Sean Lennon
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Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.
Eric Maisel
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Your right. We do spend a lot of time worrying about our looks, instead of focusing on what's inside. - Raven The artist has the power to capture that. To express what he thinks about the subject. I thought that was much more romantic then seeing myself in a cold, stark glass reflection.
Ellen Schreiber
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I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.
Sufjan Stevens
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I don't mind being classified as a jazz artist, but I do mind being restricted to being a jazz artist. My foundation has been in jazz, though I didn't really start out that way. I started in classical music, but my formative years were in jazz, and it makes a great foundation.
Herbie Hancock
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The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.
Conor Oberst
Bright Eyes
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You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.
Sarah Kay
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All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.
Paul Klee
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There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the criticism of the vulgar and ignorant.
Moliere
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There comes a time as an artist, can't follow the crowd. You have to do YOU, and make the crowd follow you.
Bob Marley
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The growth that an artist seeks is a fine combination of mastering craft, garnering an audience, maintaining one's mental health, and working mightily from a ever-expanding base of experience.
Eric Maisel
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Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.
Betty Goodwin
