Being An Artist Quotes

• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

  J. D. Salinger

  Artist, Unhappy, Would Be

  J. D. SALINGER (1968). “FOR ESME- WITH LOVE AND SQUALOR”

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• The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

  Auguste Rodin

  Artist, Men, Moved

  "The Origins of Creativity". Book by Karl H. Pfenninger, ‎Valerie R. Shubik, ‎Bruce Adolphe (p. 50), 2001.

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• Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.

  Ned Rorem

  Growing Up, Artist, Childhood

  Ned Rorem (2000). “Lies: A Diary, 1986-1999”, Counterpoint Press

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• Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.

  Keariene Muizz

  Mean, Eye, Artist

  Interview with John Rogers, The Associated Press, 2008.

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• Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Truth, Lying

  The Arts, May 1923

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• Being an artist is like being an athlete. You have to be in there every day, keeping in shape. You have to be fearless. You have to be confident, and if you start getting thrown by criticism or esthetic terminology, you're going to fall off the balance beam and hit your head and do some injury.

  Lawrence Jordan

  Fall, Athlete, Artist

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.

  Robert Henri

  Art, Mean, Bad Ass

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• Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Music

  "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

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• An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

  JR

  Artist, Ideas, Risk

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• What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

  John Updike

  Teacher, Appreciation, Art

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• To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Art, Practice, Soul

  "Finding Soul in LA: Five Creative Adventures in the City" by Roxie Sarhangi, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 18, 2014.

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  Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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

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• Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

  Marc Chagall

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.

  Ben Shahn

  Artist, Live Your Life

  Source: www.thechildrensbookreview.com

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• The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Art, Moving

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

  Paul Strand

  Art, Feet, World

  Catherine Duncan, Paul Strand, Aperture Foundation (1994). “Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait”

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• An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, Business, Thinking

  Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) (1975) ch. 10

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• The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist.

  Eric Gill

  Art, Different, Kind

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• An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world.

  George Santayana

  Dream, Art, Design

  Life of Reason (1905) vol. 4, ch. 3

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• Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Fashion, Artist, Essentials

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• There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Flower, Rose

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• Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

  Amy Lowell

  Art, Men, Expression

  Amy Lowell (1931). “Tendencies in Modern American Poetry”, p.7, Ardent Media

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• An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, War, People

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.157, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Business, Acting

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.755, GENERAL PRESS

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• Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

  Andre Gide

  Spiritual, Art, Creative Collaboration

  "The Millionaire Rig Veda" by Timothy James Brearton, (p. 40), 2012.

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