Good Artist Quotes - Page 4

• There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs... After a while everything you do is just wonderful... then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.

  Milton Resnick

  Artist, Peculiar, Up To You

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• A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

  Orson Welles

  Artist, Should, Isolated

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

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• Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration… tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils

  Francis Bacon

  Art, Attitude, People

  Hugh Marlais Davies, Francis Bacon (2001). “Francis Bacon: The Papal Portraits of 1953”, Museum of Contemporary Art San

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• Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

  David Hockney

  Mean, Artist, Good Art

  Interview with John Tusa, www.americansuburbx.com. 2004.

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• Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

  Charles Saatchi

  Jobs, Artist, Nuts

  Charles Saatchi (2009). “My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic”, Phaidon Press

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• There’s no “correct path” to becoming a real artist. You might think you’ll gain legitimacy by going to university, getting published, getting signed to a record label. But it’s all bullshit, and it’s all in your head. You’re an artist when you say you are. And you’re a good artist when you make somebody else experience or feel something deep or unexpected.

  Amanda Palmer

  Real, Artist, Thinking

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• A good teacher is like a good artist. They go right to the most difficult part of whatever's going on.

  Bruce Nauman

  Teacher, Artist, Difficult

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• I've heard many times that with all good artists it's ultimately a self-portrait even if it's an abstraction. I feel my work is very much who I am. I didn't try to make it that way; it just is. It reflects who I am and also my interests.

  Joyce Tenneson

  Photography, Artist, Self

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• I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

  Henry Rollins

  Artist, Giving, Roles

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