Young Artists Quotes - Page 3

• I think the Internet gives too much for a young artist to compare themselves too. I'm not sure that "notes" or "likes" are what we should be aspiring to, but the Internet means something different to me because I've always been primarily interested in publishing physical books.

  Liz Prince

  Book, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The biggest problem that I see that young artists have is they aren't willing to fail. And unless you fail a lot, I think it's difficult to find a voice that shouts above the crowds.

  Jacob Hashimoto

  Artist, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.designboom.com

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• The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Artist, Young, Hedonistic

  "Rufus Wainwright: 'A Diaper Is As Inspiring As a Drink'". Interview with Julia Lurie, www.motherjones.com. March 24, 2014.

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• I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.

  Spike Lee

  Artist, Support, Matter

  "rt in the Age of Shenanigans: Kehinde Wiley x Spike Lee". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, Kehinde Wiley, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 2, 2014.

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• There are a lot of young artists that are dope.

  Keith Sweat

  Artist, Dope, Young

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think my work and my understanding of art is so much related to being Chinese, but the character of that. Maybe it's beyond my own consciousness.

  Ai Weiwei

  Art, Character, Thinking

  Interview with Claudine Ko, www.mcsweeneys.net. 2007.

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• A lot of young artists and musicians that we work with, you think they're gonna want to come in and buy the rock star-looking leather jacket - whatever it is that you think they're gonna want. They all want a suit. They want a tuxedo jacket, they want a suit. They don't want to look like their dad in it, but they want a suit.

  Paul Weller

  Stars, Dad, Thinking

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• I believe the future will reflect different body types, ethnicities, cultures and sexual orientations. I've been working with a lot of young artists who really project an androgynous and inclusive approach to the world. I'm very inspired by that.

  Nelly Furtado

  Believe, Artist, Ethnicity

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

  Jillian Mayer

  Artist, Internet, Young

  "AFI Women Directors: Meet Jillian Mayer". Interview with Kerensa Cadenas, www.indiewire.com. November 12, 2013.

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• I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists who were doing interesting thing, but I don't think people are terribly interested in young artists.

  Julian Schnabel

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have heard Ori Kam on several occasions over the last few years and have always been deeply impressed with his playing. He possesses a rare combination of musical talent, technical facility, intelligence, and charisma, and he is undoubtedly one of the most extraordinary young artists I have heard in recent years.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Artist, Years, Musical

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• "The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

  Mark Kozelek

  Girl, Artist, Different

  Interview with Laura Snapes, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I have a merely ethical and moral relationship to collecting. Whereby I never collect things that I necessarily like. I collect things by young artists who don't have any money because I need to give them some money! Because I think that they should carry on whether I like it or not.

  Ryan Gander

  Thinking, Artist, Giving

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• The young artist... will discover out of ordinary things the meaning of ordinariness. He will not try to make them extraordinary. Only their real meaning will be stated.

  Allan Kaprow

  Real, Artist, Trying

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• I have always said to young artists that scholastic training and the studying of art history are crucial to fully developing as an artist.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Art, Training, Study

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• For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.

  Norah Jones

  Artist, Making Money, These Days

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• You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.

  Waylon Jennings

  Sorry, Artist, Young

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• I used to flirt with fundamentalism, and I had this idea that creation was something that happened. Now I see creation as something that is happening. Hundreds of millions of stars are still being born every day. Creation is an ongoing process. The Artist has not yet cleaned out the brushes. The paint is still wet. Human beings are the small clumps of clay and breath, and we have been handed brushes of our own, like young artist apprentices. The brushes aren't ours, nor the paint or canvas, but here they are in our hands, on loan. What shall we make?

  Michael Gungor

  Stars, Flirting, Artist

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• I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

  Isaac Stern

  Music, Teacher, Flower

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• I meet young artists and it becomes clear that with some the main motivation is getting a show in Chelsea. It strikes me that this is very different to the way it was for me, which was that I wanted to understand photography and the world and myself.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Motivation, Artist

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• People are afraid to ask musicians to be involved in projects because they anticipate being turned down. Young artists hesitate before contacting me. People in my position don't get approached often enough.

  David Sylvian

  Artist, People, Musician

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• Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any
  conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into
  weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the
  ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Vitality, Weak

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.798, GENERAL PRESS

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• The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

  Allan Kaprow

  Artist, Dancer, Needs

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• I would say being deeply involved in the art world would help keep a young artist on track. Doing what you love, so that your focus is your artistry.

  Jada Pinkett Smith

  Art, Doing What You Love, Track

  "Kaleidoscope: The Many Shades of Jada, from TV Nurse to Karate Kid's Mom". Interview with Kam Williams, communityjournal.net. June 14, 2010.

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• Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

  Jerry Saltz

  Past, Artist, Giving

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