Being An Artist Quotes - Page 7

• This is a very general understanding of art in China, that being an artist can make you money and turn you into a star.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Stars, Understanding

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. March 7, 201.

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• I try to write into the heart of experience. Then, through the experience of the writing, that heart reveals itself to me. To write it down for others, as a door to go through it they choose, is the price of the experience, the price of the ticket. This is the demand that God, if you like, puts on you for being an artist.

  Michael Ventura

  Writing, Heart, Artist

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect a certain set of values and morals. So everything that we do, every decision that we make, every picture that we take has a different weight on it. It's always interesting in balancing being an artist but being a minister as well.

  Jonathan McReynolds

  Artist, Interesting, Decision

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• I think being an artist and taking on those challenges is just how it is for me. Because I was always a foreigner, I was always the outsider.

  Tavares Strachan

  Artist, Thinking, Challenges

  "Tavares Strachan's desert explosion" by Matt Mullen, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 1, 2017.

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• That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

  Elton John

  Writing, Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Artist, Editors

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.

  Andrea Zittel

  Artist, Position, Happens

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• In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a wonderful person. And for some reason two good people couldn't make a good thing work. But in life, the one thing that I love about being an artist is that you can sometimes use the pain that you go through to make beautiful things.

  Ruben Studdard

  Beautiful, Pain, Opportunity

  "Ruben Studdard, ‘American Idol’ Winner, Talks New Album, Divorce And Health". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

  Faith Sullivan

  Artist, Talent

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• In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.

  Beverly Pepper

  Suicide, Art, Thinking

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• Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

  Graeme Base

  Lying, Artist, Journey

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• Being an artist is a lifestyle.

  Wayne White

  Artist, Lifestyle

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• Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth... will also become the raw material for the art you make.

  Teresita Fernandez

  Art, People, Raw Materials

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• That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

  Jessica Origliasso

  Artist, Self, Perspective

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Needs, Mets

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• Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Artist

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• It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Artist, Drawing, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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• My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Father, Men, Thinking

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• Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Summer, Spring, Mean

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• The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Artist

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• I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

  Larry Rivers

  Artist, Ideas

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• One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.

  Maurice Sendak

  Real, Artist, World

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist.

  Mathieu Demy

  Teenage, School, Artist

  Source: collider.com

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• Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

  Chris Johnson

  Artist, Emotional, Overcoming

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• Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in the universe. A lot of people get caught up in this idea of, "Wow! This world does revolve around me," and it most certainly does not. It's the exact opposite; these people don't exist for you, you exist for them.

  Halsey

  Artist, Opposites, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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