Artist Quotes - Page 38

• I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.

  Maurice Sendak

  Book, Wanted

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• In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.

  Vikram Seth

  Eye, Chinese, Calligraphy

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• And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position.

  John Sexton

  Cameras, Looks, Photographer

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• I support any procedure that allows photographers to express themselves, whether that involves color, black and white, platinum, palladium and digital technology.

  John Sexton

  Black And White, Technology, Color

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• When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Views, Challenges

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• O, had I but followed the arts!

  William Shakespeare

  Art

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 3, l. [99]

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• Fame isolates people from reality. That happens to many artists, and I don't want it to happen to me.

  Shakira

  Reality, People, Want

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

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• I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.

  Ed Sheeran

  Song, Musician, Paint

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

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• Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

  Rob Sheffield

  Summer, Would Be, Today

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• Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.

  Brooke Shields

  Innocence And Experience, Theme, Filmmaker

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• I grew up painting and playing piano so when I was a little kid I thought I was going to be an artist or a painter but my mom had me taking piano lessons for about 10-12 years as a young kid.

  Mike Shinoda

  Mom, Kids, Years

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• A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment.

  Beverly Sills

  Art, Perception, Environmental

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• I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.

  Gene Simmons

  Israel, America, Labels

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. March 20, 2002.

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• People will always blame the poets for society's ills. But these are the true artists.

  Russell Simmons

  People, Blame, Poet

  "More Questions with Russell Simmons". content.time.com. May 3, 2007.

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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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• When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist.

  Jessica Simpson

  Records, Want, Shows

  "The Unnewlywed". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. February 13, 2007.

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• Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

  Alfred Sisley

  Crafts, Should, Beholder

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• The industry is a menace to artists.

  Nikki Sixx

  Menace, Industry

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• I'm a commercial artist, both in music and art.

  Grace Slick

  Art

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• Artists are the people that no matter what, pick up the pen, pick up a paintbrush. They take the time to translate what is happening to create something that resonates deeply with the rest of the people that are caught in the middle of their own reality.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Reality, People, Matter

  "Let Me Down Easy". Interview with Yazmany Arboleda, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Hats, Responsible

  "Put a Face on It" by Anna Deavere Smith, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 22, 2013.

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• An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

  Arthur Smith

  Canvas, Glamorous, Masterpiece

  "Old masters and new friends" by Arthur Smith, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2003.

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• I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Art, Doing What You Love, Track

  "Kaleidoscope: The Many Shades of Jada, from TV Nurse to Karate Kid's Mom". Interview with Kam Williams, communityjournal.net. June 14, 2010.

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• I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Gold, Cuffs, Pelicans

  Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 6, 2012.

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• When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

  Kevin Smith

  Self, Trying

  Interview with Cameron Martin, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 19, 2012.

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