Best artist & happens Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.”

Source: Oliphant's Anthem

“No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.”

Way Happens Artist United Directors Organization Extraordinary Trusted

Author:John Schlesinger

“What I love most in life happens to be the very thing that I do day-to-day, as my work. What would be my hobby, you know, happens to be my actual job. So I'm very lucky. Even if I didn't want to do as much work as I do, I'd still feel compelled to, because I so longed to be a full-time artist, and since I've been given that opportunity, I'd never want to let down the gift.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Stills Happens Would Be Jobs Artist Opportunity Given Lucky Hobbies Day To Day Compelled Let Down Life Happens

Author:Ryan Adams

“Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.”

Mean Two Ideas Sometimes Happens Together Artist Working Together Right Ideas

Author:David Guetta

“We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.”

Needs Kind Happens Artist Loses Drawing All Kinds

Author:David Hockney

“The artist who paints the emotions creates an enclosed world... the picture... which, like a book, has the same interest no matter where it happens to be. Such an artist, we may imagine, spends a great deal of time doing nothing but looking, both around him and inside him.”

World May Book Matter Happens Artist Interest Deals Emotion Imagine Paint Doing Nothing

Author:Pierre Bonnard

“There are no guidelines for what happens when you get successful as an artist. My heroes were artists like Acconci, and he didn't make any money. That's what I thought success was.”

Happens Success Artist Successful Hero My Hero Guidelines

Author:Robert Longo

“Nobody knows what makes good art. As an artist, when it happens, you're grateful, and then you get on with it.”

Knows Art Happens Artist Standards Grateful Nobody Knows Good Art

Author:Alice Neel

“It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as we now value the artists and craftsmen of the late eighteenth century.”

Years May Happens Artist Values Next Century Late Hundred Novelists Present Day Craftsman

Book:The world of Evelyn Waugh

Source: The world of Evelyn Waugh

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.”

People World Persons Art Might Happens Desire Artist Can Do Creative Add Works Of Art Creative Person Arranging Forts

Author:Carl Andre

“I've got to think about what I'm going to say very carefully. There's two avenues of thought: Do you stop everyone going, ban all the artists coming in from Russia? But then you're really leaving the men and women who are gay and suffering under the antigay laws in an isolated situation. As a gay man, I can't leave those people on their own without going over there and supporting them. I don't know what's going to happen, but I've got to go.”

People Thinking Knows Men I Can Two Happens Law Artist Suffering Situation He Man Gay Men And Women Leaving Russia Isolated Avenues Bans Gay Men

Author:Elton John

“If you loved everything you were writing, you would be deluding yourself or a complete and absolute narcissist. It's not about liking what you write, it's about improving with every word, little by little, exploring your craft, becoming the artist you hope to be one day. And you can only do that by working at it every day. It doesn't happen overnight, it doesn't happen over a weekend, it is a lifelong pursuit.”

Ifs Writing Littles Book Happens Would Be Artist Becoming One Day Absolutes Pursuit Crafts Comic Weekend Comic Book Exploring Improving Lifelong Narcissist

Author:Brian Michael Bendis

“There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.”

Knows Kind Book Moments Light Happens Artist Stuff White Building Recognition White Light

Author:Barbara Kruger

“What happen to the pirates we are supposed to see? Then we go down the chutes, and it's where the pirates were. But they're all gone. There is nothing but skeletons down here!”

Happens Artist Gone Pirate Skeletons

Author:John Hench

“As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.”

Writing Happens America Artist Song Difficult White Race Fans Awareness Males Privilege Heavy Spread Platforms Listeners

Author:Macklemore

“Because when an artist has to assert that her intended audience is all humans rather than those who happen to be of her particular gender or race, what she’s actually having to assert is the breadth and depth of her own humanity.”

Humans Happens Artist Humanity Race Audience Particular Depth Gender Breadth

Author:Cheryl Strayed

“everything happens to an artist; time is always redeemed, nothing is lost and wonders never cease.”

Happens Artist Lost Wonder Things Happen Cease Redeemed

Book:Loitering with Intent

Source: Loitering with Intent

“I think that hip-hop is more of an individual effort. That means you're an artist from the streets, they expect you to rap about the streets, because that's what happens there.”

Thinking Mean Happens Artist Individual Effort Streets Hip Hop Rap Hips Hops Individual Effort

Author:Conor Oberst

“Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.”

Happens Artist Television Mediums Businessman

Book:For Keeps

Source: For Keeps

“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.”

People Way Art Happens Artist Materials Mouths Vote Studios You Choose Being An Artist Raw Materials

Author:Teresita Fernandez

“No doubt other writers have often put a thing more brilliantly, more subtly than even a very cunning artist in words can hope to emulate, a supreme phrase being a bit of luck that only happens now and then. And inasmuch as the condiments and secret travail of human nature are always the same, and that certain psychological moments must ever and ever recur, what more tempting than to pin down such a moment with the blow of a borrowed hammer?”

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