Being An Artist Quotes - Page 4

• I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

  Usher

  Artist, Light, Vision

  "Usher ‘Experimental’ in Relationships". www.music-news.com. May 25, 2012.

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• Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Challenges, Aging

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• I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

  Bruno Mars

  Jobs, Artist, Curves

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.

  Faith Evans

  Mother, Song, Mean

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• It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

  Dirk Benedict

  Artist, Tangible, Way

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• The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Growing Up, Artist, Cities

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• I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Imagine, Ends

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• When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Children, Artist

  "A sculptor's world".

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• I think part of what makes us unique as artists and as singers is that we can bare our souls in front of millions of people That's the magic and power of being an artist. You can be honest. Always remember that. And do not be afraid.

  Shawn Stockman

  Artist, Unique, Thinking

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• I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

  David LaChapelle

  Art, Thinking, Differences

  David LaChapelle (2008). “David LaChapelle al Forte Belvedere”, Giunti GAMM

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• I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

  Antonio Banderas

  Mean, Artist, Games

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• I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.

  Dennis Hopper

  Photography, Fun, Artist

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dance, Dream

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• Wolfe was drinking beer and looking at pictures of snowflakes in a book someone had sent him from Czechoslovakia... ...Wolfe seemed absorbed in the pictures. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. He's fighting his way through a raging blizzard, just sitting there comfortably looking at pictures of snowflakes. That's the advantage of being an artist, of having imagination." I said aloud, "You mustn't go to sleep, sir, it's fatal. You freeze to death." The League of Frightened Men

  Rex Stout

  Drinking, Book, Sleep

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• I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

  Kelly Lynch

  Good Living

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• The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.

  Courtney Love

  Liars, Artist, Past

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• As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

  Brian Eno

  Struggle, Artist

  "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• Being an artist is a job for life.

  Brian Eno

  Jobs, Artist

  "A Year With Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.

  Marina Abramovic

  Sacrifice, Artist, Years

  "When Antony met Marina" by Eleanor Morgan, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2010.

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• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  J. Cole

  Eye, Artist, People

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• With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

  Bruce Conner

  Art, Couple, Foundation

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• Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

  Christian Louboutin

  Artist, People, Technique

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• You know the question: 'How do you get to Carnegie Hall?' Answer: 'Practise?' Well, in my case, I got there by not practising. I didn't finish my music degree. And when I got into the pop world, I decided not to conform because I figured that the point of being an artist was that you shouldn't be like anyone else.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Artist, Degrees, Answers

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• Being an artist doesn't mean that you're a good artist. That was the bargain I first made with myself: I'd say, I'm an artist, but I'm not really very good.

  Paul Simon

  Art, Mean, Firsts

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• There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

  Matt Smith

  Sacrifice, Artist, Discipline

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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