Being An Artist Quotes - Page 4

• I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.

  Faith Evans

  Mother, Song, Mean

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• I hadn't known anything else, other than being an artist, and I needed to be a person for a while, really get to know myself without that whole thing [of selling music] surrounding me.

  Tove Styrke

  Artist, Selling, Needed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• 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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• I am just a middle-class farm boy from Dodge City and my grandparents were wheat farmers. I thought painting, acting, directing and photography were all part of being an artist. I have made my money that way. And I have had some fun. It's not been a bad life.

  Dennis Hopper

  Photography, Fun, Artist

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

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• The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.

  Courtney Love

  Liars, Artist, Past

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• I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.

  Kelly Lynch

  Good Living

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• I think part of what makes us unique as artists and as singers is that we can bare our souls in front of millions of people That's the magic and power of being an artist. You can be honest. Always remember that. And do not be afraid.

  Shawn Stockman

  Artist, Unique, Thinking

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• I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

  Deborah Cox

  Inspirational, Dance, Dream

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• I didn’t see any difference between being a photographer or being an artist. I didn’t make those boundaries. If someone wants to think it’s art, that’s great, but I’ll let history decide.

  David LaChapelle

  Art, Thinking, Differences

  David LaChapelle (2008). “David LaChapelle al Forte Belvedere”, Giunti GAMM

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• With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.

  Bruce Conner

  Art, Couple, Foundation

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• Being an artist and having to be responsible for the art that you make is really quite challenging, and as you get older it becomes more and more difficult.

  Tracey Emin

  Art, Challenges, Aging

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• I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

  Bruno Mars

  Jobs, Artist, Curves

  "Bruno Mars: The complete Q&A interview". Interview with George Varga, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. June 9, 2011.

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• It is a good motive, fame and money, as it is tangible and measurable. Being an artist is neither measurable nor tangible and certainly not a way to become rich.

  Dirk Benedict

  Artist, Tangible, Way

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• Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.

  Brice Marden

  Independent, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

  Holly Near

  Hurt, Artist, Willing

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• I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?

  Charles de Lint

  Thinking, Mad, Genius

  "Memory and Dream". Book by Charles de Lint, 1994.

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• Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to think more. Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

  "Jennifer Lopez: I Would Never Have In Vitro, I’m ‘Hyper J Lo’ Now", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education.

  William T. Wiley

  Education, Artist, Thinking

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• Somewhere within all of us is a wordless center, a part of us that hopes to be immortal in some way, a part that has remained unchanged since we were children, the source of our strength and compassion. This faint confluence of the tangible and the spiritual is where Art comes from. It has no known limits, and once you tap into it you will realize what truly rich choices you have. May each painting you do from that sacred place include an expression of gratitude for the extraordinary privilege of being an artist.

  Richard Schmid

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Art

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• I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it’s not separated.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mother, Kids, Artist

  "[INTERVIEW] Jada Pinkett Smith Talks New Projects, and Why We Shouldn’t Hate on Reality TV". Interview with Geneva S. Thomas, www.ebony.com. June 6, 2012.

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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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• 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 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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