“Acting is just another way to express myself as an artist. I realized if you're an artist, you're an artist and you can express that through music, through painting, through photography, through acting - this is just another way for me to express myself.” IfsWayArtistActingPaintingPhotographyI RealizedAnother Way Author:Common
“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.” WorldArtistEnjoyTermMy OwnHellResponseStudiosI RealizedRenewalBeing An ArtistReinventing Author:Cornelia Parker
“I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.” YearsFirstsArtArtistActorsStageStudentsPoetMovedUniversityI RealizedCaliforniaPerformersDeafFestivalsSigningMoved OnInterpretingInterpreterCoordinatingI Moved On Author:Jack Jason
“This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.” FirstsArtMadeArtistBoysSawsPaintingFirst TimeBlueI RealizedEncounters Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.” ArtistCan DoPoetProfessionI RealizedEpiphanyTranslatorsLinguists Author:Jan Peacock
“I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I need to study the book publishing and Hollywood and figure out how they do things, why they do them that way, and then I need to borrow, and rearrange, the things that they're doing to fit my industry so that I can invent and create this new industry.” WayNeedsI CanBookIdeasWholeArtistStudyFiguresKeysIndustryFitOkayHollywoodEdgesI RealizedBunchSoftwarePublishingMusic IndustryDevelopersBook Publishing Author:Trip Hawkins
“I realized that were I to paint flowers small, no one would look at them because I was unknown. So I thought I'll make them big, like the huge buildings going up. People will be startled; they'll have to look at them - and they did.” PeopleLooksBigsArtistBuildingFlowerHugePaintI Realized Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life