Being An Artist Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

  Margaret Cho

  Artist, Sensitive

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". June 21, 2016, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

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• Not any particular religion or school of religion, but being an artist, you have to be spiritual, in a way.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Spiritual, School, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.

  Pierre Coupey

  Art, Responsibility, Thinking

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• I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Artist, Psychosis, Two

  "There's something about Sam" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2009.

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• I'm terminally dissatisfied. That's probably part of being an artist.

  Jared Leto

  Artist, Dissatisfied

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• We all have our insecurity and that's normal. And you have to learn to accept that about being an artistic person or aspiring to be an artistic person is that fears and insecurity, they don't go away.

  Annette Bening

  Insecurity, Going Away, Artistic

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Art, Ideas, People

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• Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It keeps us honest.

  Lupita Nyong'o

  Artist, Honest, Concerned

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• Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.

  Luc Delahaye

  Artist, Want, Poet

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• The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.

  Rose McGowan

  Artist, Mind, Awesome Things

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2015

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• Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.

  Gerald Stern

  Believe, Artist, Caves

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I'm going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head.

  Antonio Banderas

  Mean, Artist, Games

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• Part of my work is dedicated to artisanship and can only be done by very few people because it requires a specific technique. Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.

  Christian Louboutin

  Artist, People, Technique

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• As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

  Brian Eno

  Struggle, Artist

  "A Year with Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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• My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.

  Jeannette Walls

  Dream, Artist, Manhattan

  "Jeannette Walls Answers Your Questions". ABC News Interview, abcnews.go.com. March 15, 2005.

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• I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

  Junot Diaz

  Artist, Imagine, Ends

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• When an artist stopped being a child, he would stop being an artist.

  Isamu Noguchi

  Children, Artist

  "A sculptor's world".

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• Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.

  Youssou N'Dour

  Art, Play, Political

  "I'm bringing a message" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2007.

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• I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Moving, Writing, Artist

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• There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

  Matt Smith

  Sacrifice, Artist, Discipline

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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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• The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.

  J. Cole

  Eye, Artist, People

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• The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.

  Lenny Kravitz

  Growing Up, Artist, Cities

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• Being an artist is a job for life.

  Brian Eno

  Jobs, Artist

  "A Year With Swollen Appendices". Book by Brian Eno, 1996.

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