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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.”

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Author:Dirk Benedict

“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.”

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Author:Faith Evans

“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.”

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Author:Bruno Mars

“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.”

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Author:Tracey Emin

“Being an artist is being an isolated individual.”

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Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.”

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Author:Cornelia Parker

“Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.”

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Author:Cornelia Parker

“Being an artist is a lifestyle.”

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Author:Wayne White

“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.”

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Author:Pierre Alechinsky

“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.”

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Author:Richard Diebenkorn

“An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.”

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Author:JR

“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.”

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Author:Tove Styrke

“I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?”

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Author:Kate Bush

“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... The artist lives with anxiety.”

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Author:Beverly Pepper

“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.”

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Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“To be born with a unique instinct, will demand 'unique duties'. If you didn't think about being an artist before 7 years of age you probably don't have it and you will be able to paint what you want to paint.”

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Author:David Luiz

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

“Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has become too comfortable, at least in the West. I'm not sure I agree. It's a mark of civilization to encourage the arts and the life of the mind.”

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Author:J. M. Coetzee

“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.”

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Author:Usher

“I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.”

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Author:Pierre Coupey

“To be a qawwal is more than being a performer, more than being an artist. One must be willing to release one's mind and soul from one's body to achieve ecstasy through music. Qawwali is enlightenment itself.”

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Author:Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

“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.”

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Author:Robert Rodriguez

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

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Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“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.”

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Author:Jessica Origliasso

“One of the beauties of being an artist is that you can create a whole new world, with circumstances that are better in your invented world than they are in the real world.”

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Author:Maurice Sendak

“Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth... will also become the raw material for the art you make.”

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Author:Teresita Fernandez

“Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.”

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Author:Keariene Muizz

“Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.”

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Author:Graeme Base