Being An Artist Quotes - Page 5

• I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.

  Usher

  Artist, Light, Vision

  "Usher ‘Experimental’ in Relationships". www.music-news.com. May 25, 2012.

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• Part of the business of being an artist is abetting talent. The best do that.

  Faith Sullivan

  Artist, Talent

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• That's just a part of being an artist: you can't write great stuff all the time, because if you did, then you'd be inhuman. The human side of people is that sometimes they fail.

  Elton John

  Writing, Artist, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Summer, Spring, Mean

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• The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.

  Taylor Swift

  Writing, Artist

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• In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a wonderful person. And for some reason two good people couldn't make a good thing work. But in life, the one thing that I love about being an artist is that you can sometimes use the pain that you go through to make beautiful things.

  Ruben Studdard

  Beautiful, Pain, Opportunity

  "Ruben Studdard, ‘American Idol’ Winner, Talks New Album, Divorce And Health". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2012.

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• Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.

  Chris Johnson

  Artist, Emotional, Overcoming

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• The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.

  Laurie Anderson

  Buddhism, Artist, Authority

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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• But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.

  Alan Bean

  Artist, Found, Difficult

  "An Interview with Space Artist Astronaut Alan Bean". Interview with Jim Plakco, www.artsnova.com. October 3, 1992.

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• I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

  Larry Rivers

  Artist, Ideas

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• In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us. I often think that all I want to do now is to avoid suicide, accidental or otherwise. Other than that, I think living on the edge is what drives my work and me beyond a certain point. The artist lives with anxiety. When you finally reach a plateau of achievement, there comes a new anxiety - the hunger to push on still further. That angst is what makes you go forward.

  Beverly Pepper

  Suicide, Art, Thinking

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• That's the thing about being an artist, you don't have to take anyone else's perspective into account. You can act as self-indulgent in your emotions as you want.

  Jessica Origliasso

  Artist, Self, Perspective

  Source: www.fuse.tv

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• There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.

  Andrea Zittel

  Artist, Position, Happens

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• Being an artist doesn’t take much, just everything you got. Which means, of course, that as the process is giving you life, it is also bringing you closer to death. But it’s no big deal. They are one in the same and cannot be avoided or denied. So when I totally embrace this process, this life/death, and abandon myself to it, I transcend all this meaningless gibberish and hang out with the gods. It seems to me that that is worth the price of admission.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Mean, Artist, Giving

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• So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.

  Chris Rock

  Artist, Clouds, Years

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.

  Laurie Anderson

  Artist, God Complex, Godlike

  The Believer Interview, www.believermag.com. January, 2012.

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• The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.

  Halsey

  Couple, Hate, Fall

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in the universe. A lot of people get caught up in this idea of, "Wow! This world does revolve around me," and it most certainly does not. It's the exact opposite; these people don't exist for you, you exist for them.

  Halsey

  Artist, Opposites, Ideas

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Being an artist is a lifestyle.

  Wayne White

  Artist, Lifestyle

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• Being an artist and being a teacher are two conflicting things. When I paint, my work manifests the unexpected... In teaching it's just the opposite. I must account for every line, shape and colour and I am forced to give an explanation of the inexplicable and account for the variety of styles the students present.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Artist

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• My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

  Richard Diebenkorn

  Father, Men, Thinking

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• I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

  John Lithgow

  School, Artist, Theatre

  "John Lithgow on Process, His Past and Playing an Artist in Love Is Strange". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. July 17, 2014.

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• The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Artist, Editors

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.236, Anchor

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• Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.

  Nathan Sawaya

  Art, Years, Creating

  Source: londoncalling.com

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• I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die.

  Lady Gaga

  Dream, Artist, Crafts

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