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Artist Quotes

The discipline and feeling behind making art.

This group of quotes describes the artist as someone shaped by training as much as instinct, whether that means starting a project from a visual idea or treating color and sound as tools for emotion. It pairs naturally with our broader Art quotes.

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When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.

Quotes by Ahmet Ertegun

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Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

Quotes by Agnes Varda

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Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the...

Quotes by Agnes Martin

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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

Quotes by Agnes de Mille

Always Quotes

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I am a failed visual artist.

Quotes by Aesop Rock

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Before I began concentrating on writing, in my free time I was an artist, making and selling etchings illustrating stories based on my readings in classical literature.

Quotes by Adrienne Mayor

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'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an imagined story about Loretta Young; Clark Gable; Alda, a young woman with a secret who is preparing to become a nun but is cast...

Quotes by Adriana Trigiani

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As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.

Quotes by Adrian Younge

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To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

Art Quotes

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I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.

Quotes by Adrian Tomine

A few lines describe art as a way of elevating others, a purpose worth reading beside Being quotes, while more introspective statements about identity as a maker connect to our I Am quotes.