Being An Artist Quotes - Page 6

• Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.

  Sara Blecher

  Eye, Artist, People

  Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2015.

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• [My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.

  Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

  Mother, Artist, Littles

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• In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

  William Faulkner

  Artist, Europe, America

  William Faulkner (2006). “Novels, 1926-1929”

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• Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one but ourselves can keep us from being artists, rather than marching forward like mere consumers, corporate robots, sheep. No one but ourselves can keep us from dancing with life instead of goose-stepping. In every moment recognizing our own creative imagination, the living picture we paint on the canvas of our lives. Everything is imagination. And imagination is freedom, but it can also be conditioning, bondage.

  Surya Das

  Artist, Sheep, Dancing

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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 never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative. When I'm with my kids I'm creating but I'm still a mom. I don't wear two different hats. My kids have always been on the set with me. I was breastfeeding on set. None of my kids would take a bottle so they could not leave my side for a very long time.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Mom, Mother, Kids

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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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• There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better. There are many (Latino) stories that need to be told and haven't been told right. If I could help be that voice then that's what I'm going to do, because this is a reality for me.

  Richard Cabral

  Artist, Reality, Voice

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• It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Artist, Drawing, Finals

  Source: collider.com

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• artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Artist, Needs, Mets

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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, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.

  Graeme Base

  Lying, Artist, Journey

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

  Faith Sullivan

  Artist, Talent

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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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• A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

  Christian Keiber

  Artist, Quitting, Failing

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

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• We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.

  Geoff Rickly

  Artist, Self, White Privilege

  "United Nations". Interview with Ian Cohen, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2014.

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• I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.

  Elizabeth Neel

  School, Artist, Thinking

  Interview with Michel Auder, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 22, 2009.

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• I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.

  Lynn Shelton

  Grateful, Artist, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• There's no map for being an artist.

  Seth Godin

  Artist, Maps

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• Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk. People need a release and I enjoy being an artist that can do that for people.

  Yelawolf

  Artist, People, Records

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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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• 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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