Best artist & ifs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?”

Ifs Knows Kind Long Artist Touring You Like It

Author:Paul McDonald

“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.”

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Author:Roger McGuinn

“I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those people in my life, I wouldn't be in the position I'm in.”

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Author:Ryan McGinley

“I guess The Grudge made over $100 million, but none of them had long legs after they came out but they all opened up and found an audience. If you could make those movies for a price, which is what I want to do with Spawn, then you could have some success.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“If I ever do anything, it actually might be some fantasy elf thing or even some cute, funny thing. Just to do something a little bit out of the ordinary. I've done my superhero gig.”

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Author:Todd McFarlane

“As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.”

People Ifs Artist Choices Dare Outsiders

Author:Connie Nielsen

“People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.”

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Author:Conor Oberst

“With drama, you need to be laughing, in between takes, 'cause you're going to those recesses of your soul and those dangerous parts. Normally, if you're not an actor or some crazy artist, you don't feel the need to run around in those areas. You keep them separate because it's painful.”

Ifs Needs Feels Soul Running Artist Actors Causes Laughing Crazy Dangerous Drama Areas Painful Your Soul Recess

Author:Josh Peck

“People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.”

People Ifs Want Sometimes Artist Asks Fun Solo

Author:Liam Payne

“I've always loved doing covers. Some artists don't like covers. Some listeners don't like covers. But I love them. It gives you a new perspective production-wise. It's easier for me, if I'm starting a new record, I like to produce a few songs that aren't mine just so it frees me up not to worry about it so much.”

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Author:Greg Laswell

“The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.”

Ifs Want Moments Artist Freeze Moments In Time

Author:David Sylvian

“No art is any good unless you can feel how it's put together. By and large it's the eye, the hand and if it's any good, you feel the body. Most of the best stuff seems to be a complete gesture, the totality of the artist's body; you can really lean on it.”

Ifs Feels Art Body Hands Seems Eye Together Artist Stuff Art Is Gestures Totality

Author:Frank Stella

“I think Prince should open up a little more to other artists. Just because we love Prince. Especially the old stuff - we love him to death. But if he opened up he would be something to deal with. Imagine Kanye West producing a Prince track? It would be banoodles!”

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Author:Jamie Foxx

“It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that.”

People Ifs Feels Use Artist Song Asks Decision Nice How You Feel

Author:Jared Leto

“In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.”

Ifs Artist Childhood Havens Amount Twenties Trauma Your Children Complexity

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.”

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Author:Matthew Sweet

“A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.”

Ifs Important Artist Three Pieces Advice Honesty Picks Important Things Trust And Respect

Author:Neil Strauss

“Believing in yourself and what you do is so important. It took me a long time to find that confidence. If you're an artist and you're taking risks, then you're doing something right if some people don't get it.”

People Ifs Believe Long Important Artist Risk Long Time Believe In Yourself Taking Risks

Author:Kate Voegele

“I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.”

Ifs Knows Feels Should Artist Singers

Author:Jessie Ware

“Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.”

Ifs Way Artist Building Contributing

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Artist Influence Direct Architecture Mechanic Japanese Architecture

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.”

Ifs Men Looks Artist Building One Man Another Man Facade

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“Even though artists of all kinds claim to put their hearts and souls into their works, it will only confuse you, for example, if you try to discern a painter by his paintings. His masterpiece may be the master because of its iridescence; it may display a hundred different perspectives through his single face.”

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Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”

Ifs Want Art Done Artist Hours Crazy Creatures Projects Architecture Rip Eleventh Hour

Author:Maya Lin

“For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.”

Ifs I Can Ends Artist Love Is Music Is Bass Contributing

Author:Tony Levin

“The artist never really has any control over the impact of his work. If he starts thinking about the impact of his work, then he becomes a lesser artist.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Impact

Author:Aasif Mandvi

“I'm a mixture of Anglo-Saxon, a bit of Spanish and one-eighth American. I've often wondered if I have an Asiatic ancestor from the East as well because I have deep-set eyes. Make-up artists are constantly trying to shade my eyelids, and I have to point out that I don't have any!”

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Author:Olivia Williams

“Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.”

Ifs Persons Artist Categories Dilemma

Book:Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

Source: Essays on the Blurring of Art and Life

“I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.”

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Author:Adele

“If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.”

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Author:Chris Cornell

“Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it a cash value. If the selling is not necessarily a contradiction of the truth in the picture, it is so close to being a contradiction—and the truth is always in shades of gray-that you are worn down by the threat.”

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Book:Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

Source: Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews

“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.”

Ifs Want Feels Mind Jobs Artist Students Producers Curves Filling Being An Artist

Author:Bruno Mars

“If we marvel at the artist who has written a great book, we must marvel more at those people whose lives are works of art and who don't even know it, who wouldn't believe it if they were told. However hard work good writing may be, it is easier than good living.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Believe May Art Book Hard Artist Written Hard Work Easier Works Of Art Good Writing Great Book Good Living

Book:Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

Source: Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children

“If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Vision Computer Personal Vision

Author:Dave Gibbons

“Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.”

Ifs Should Hands Artist Add Video Hand In Hand

Author:Marilyn Manson

“We artists can only go so far as the people can follow us. We are not alone, we are part of the system. We can take risks, but if you want to go to the peak of your consciousness, you may very well find yourself alone. Even if you know how to translate what you see, maybe only ten people will be able to understand what you tell. But, if you have faith in your vision, and retell it again and again, you will start noticing that, after a time, more people will begin to catch up with you.”

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Author:Jean Giraud

“When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.”

People Ifs Writing Artist Stuff Records Focused Touring

Author:Rico Love

“Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly to your control? Is your motive esthetic? If so, you are an artist. If not, you are probably a writer.”

Ifs Looks Use Body Artist Tools Your Body Motive

Author:Robert Breault

“If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.”

Ifs Needs Artist Talent Criticism Critics

Author:Robert Breault

“Even if I weren't learning new roles and getting the opportunity to be coached by incredible people, I still think I would be so excited to have an opportunity to continue to push myself and grow, as an artist.”

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Author:Misty Copeland

“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.”

Ifs Way Artist Acting Painting Photography I Realized Another Way

Author:Common

“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.”

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Author:Ryan Adams

“If the man who paints only the tree, or flower, or other surface he sees before him were an artist, the king of artists would be the photographer. It is for the artist to do something beyond this.”

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Book:The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

Source: The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

“And yet the artist will go on with his work without knowing in some way if any of his representations are sound or unsound. The artist knows nothing worth mentioning about the subjects he represents, and that art is a form of play, not to be taken seriously.”

Ifs Knows Way Art Play Form Artist Sound Knowing Taken Subjects Goes On Art Is Representation

Author:Plato

“If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.”

Source: Journal of a Solitude

“No doubt, it is useful for an artist to know all the forms of art which have preceded or which accompany his. That is a sign of strength if it is a question of looking for a stimulus or recognizing mistakes he must avoid.”

Ifs Knows Art Form Artist Mistake Doubt Strength No Doubt Recognizing Stimulus Accompany

Author:Pablo Picasso

“I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled by those who have controlled the old, narrower ones, .. This is especially true if they achieve that control by leveraging their dominance in content or conduit space in an anticompetitive way to control the new, independent music services that are attempting to enhance the consumer's experience of music.”

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Author:Orrin Hatch

“It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.”

Ifs Seems Today Artist Wish Serious Solitude

Book:Edgar Degas

Source: Edgar Degas

“If the artist succeeds in producing the impression of a movement which takes several moments for accomplishment, his work is certainly much less conventional than the scientific image, where time is abruptly suspended.”

Ifs Moments Artist Movement Succeed Impression Accomplishment Conventional Suspended

Book:Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell

Source: Rodin on Art and Artists: Conversations with Paul Gsell

“Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?”

Ifs Kind Littles Stills Done Light Artist Hours Sleep Fool Bed Office Drawing Dawn Iphone Office Hours

Author:David Hockney

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