Being An Artist Quotes - Page 10

• Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.

  Seth Godin

  Attitude, Inspirational Life, Artist

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• Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for.

  Jodie Foster

  Artist, Way

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• To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.

  Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

  Artist, Soul, Mind

  "The Spirit of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan". Interview with Andy Carvin, edwebproject.org. 1993.

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• I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.

  Roy Ayers

  Artist, Sensitive, Leonardo

  "Ubiquity Still Virgin After All These Years: An Interview with Roy Ayers". Interview with Matt Rogers, www.popmatters.com. February 2, 2004.

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• In times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings--artists, scientists, clowns and philosophers--to create order. In times such as ours, however, when there is too much order, too much management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relive the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption.

  Tom Robbins

  Men, Artist, Order

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues”, p.215, Bantam

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• The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.

  John Chamberlain

  Art, Way, Good Things

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• The unique essence of being an artist is dying. Eveything looks the same. Now there’s a formula. And it works. - But it takes away from the reason we do it.

  Usher

  Artist, Unique, Essence

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