Fine Artists Quotes - Page 3

• Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.

  Norman Rockwell

  Art, Differences, People

  Norman Rockwell (1994). “Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces”, Outlet

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• What a designer does is he makes things possible that you didn't imagine could exist before, and it makes the world a better place. You know, it's a great thing to be doing. A fine artist does that, too, but they make the expression for themselves, not for others' use.

  Paula Scher

  Artist, Expression, Doe

  Source: es.scribd.com

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• I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Pain, Struggle, Artist

  Kurt Vonnegut (1987). “Bluebeard: A Novel”, New York : Delacorte Press

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• A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.

  Louis Nizer

  Art, Renewal, Fine

  Louis Nizer (1963). “Between you and me”

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• Traditionally, photography has dealt with recording the world as it is found. Before photography appeared the fine artists of the time, the painters and sculptors, concerned themselves with rendering reality with as much likeness as their skill enabled. Photography, however, made artistic reality much more available, more quickly and on a much broader scale.

  Ralph Gibson

  Photography, Artist, Reality

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• I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

  John Hench

  Art, School, People

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• We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.

  Dieter Rams

  Confused, Artist, People

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• I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

  David Byrne

  New York, Ambition, Artist

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• I've watched so many women, from Kathleen Hanna all the way up to Taylor Swift, whether they're pop artists or rock stars or fine artists or writers, it is the subhistory of female artists that if you're going to make art, you're also going to have a full-time job of defending your right to make art.

  Amanda Palmer

  Art, Stars, Jobs

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• The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

  Edward Ruscha

  Photography, Artist, Facts

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• I would never have expected anything that I did would ever appear in first-rate museums around the world. That was just a choice that I made, very early on. I was interested mainly in the entertainment arts. I wasn't as interested in being a fine artists.

  Rick Heinrichs

  Art, Museums, Choices

  Source: collider.com

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• Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

  Zanele Muholi

  Artist, Painful, Fine

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• As a fine artist I was drawn to composition and technique. I would count the cuts.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Cutting, Artist, Technique

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm a fine artist working in a commercial arena, so that's my cross to bear

  Joni Mitchell

  Artist, Bears, Arena

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• It is the special privilege of the fine artist to reveal immediate data with a clarity, intensity and purity that promotes them to a special degree of reality.

  Alton Tobey

  Artist, Reality, Data

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• I've been very lucky. I've had three separate careers: freelance illustrator, then set designer, puppetteer and animator, and now fine artist. I just bluffed my way into every one of 'em!

  Wayne White

  Artist, Careers, Ems

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