Real Artists Quotes

• It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

  Berthe Morisot

  Art, Real, Taken

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• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Success, God

  Quoted in Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake, Life with Picasso (1964)

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Art

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• He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.

  Auguste Rodin

  Real, Artist, Discouraged

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• I don't believe any real artists have ever been non-political. They may have been insensitive to this particular plight or insensitive to that, but they were political, because that's what an artist is-a politician.

  Toni Morrison

  Real, Believe, Artist

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.4, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

  Robert Henri

  Real, Artist, Surprise

  Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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• Art is a vocation, as much as anything in this world. For the real artist, it is the most natural thing in the world, not as necessary as air and water, perhaps, but as food and water. But we really do lead almost a monastic life, you know; to follow it you very often have to give up something.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Art, Giving Up, Real

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.86, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

  Irving Stone

  Beautiful, Real, Artist

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• As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

  Black Francis

  Jobs, Real, Artist

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• Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

  Josh Peck

  Art, Real, Sadness

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• I think Damien Hirst is hilarious. And I think he's a true artist. He's not hilarious first; I think he is a real artist, and I also think he's got an amazing sense of humor.

  Jemima Kirke

  Real, Artist, Thinking

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

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• You know, real artists, we expose our flaws. We long for intimacy.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Real, Artist, Long

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• The real artist is striving to depict his subject's character and to stress the caricature, but at least it is art which is alive.

  William Dobell

  Art, Real, Stress

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• Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Real, Artist, Maturity

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• A lot of people relate my success now with The Voice, and it has nothing to do with that. I've definitely worked my ass off for a year afterwards trying to get that off of my forehead. If anything, it's actually harder to get labels to look at you when you come off a show like that, and it's harder for people to look at you like a real artist.

  Melanie Martinez

  Real, Artist, Years

  Source: nocountryfornewnashville.com

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• I think it's really important for real artists to make sure they're honest.

  Pixie Lott

  Real, Artist, Thinking

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• Nirvana's amazing, but they're just never going to find another one, there's no artist development anymore, you're never going to have a U2, you're never going to have a Bruce Springsteen, those guys didn't make it off of their first single and real artists probably won't make it off of their first singles.

  Richard Patrick

  Real, Artist, Guy

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives. But the art establishment branded him an 'illustrator', a sentimental one at that. Real artists, they said were doing art for art's sake, not for the sake of the bourgeois public. Real artists were putting swiggles, smears or daubs of paint on the canvas. They were doing 'innovative' and 'creative' work. If they were hideous and grotesque; we know that's what life really is!

  Bill Bonner

  Art, Real, Careers

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• I would say that for the younger musicians, technical proficiency is necessary and a given these days. But the study and the way you function in society, your beliefs and the way you live, that is where you will find a real musician, a real artist.

  David Finckel

  Real, Artist, Musician

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• I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary], and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.

  Amber Heard

  Real, Artist, Diaries

  "Amber Heard the Rum Diary Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 27, 2011.

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• The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.

  Socrates

  Real, Artist, Memorial

  Source: www.howtodrawjourney.com

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• Many of us believe that 'real artists' do not experience self-doubt. In truth, artists are people who have learned to live with doubt and do the work anyway.

  Julia Cameron

  Real, Believe, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2002). “The Artist's Way: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.255, Penguin

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• Think it's so unfair when people think that you're not a "real artist" unless you're getting paid for it....I personally know so many poets that work a 9 to 5 in a cubicle and come home and write poetry. Their poetry is just as powerful and moving as anything that I've ever written, if not more.

  Sarah Kay

  Powerful, Real, Moving

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• I think that fame only goes to your head if you are not a real artist. If you are a real artist and a good person who loves what they are doing, you are going to be the same person.

  Lady Starlight

  Real, Artist, Thinking

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• I feel like I am a real artist and I want to be able to feel what I am singing about. So when I sing, 'Leave (Get Out),' I have been through that. I think it is just a new generation, whether people are ready for it or not. Teenagers are dating.

  Joanna Noelle Levesque

  Real, Teenager, Artist

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