Best artist & kind 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

“San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.”

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Author:Gavin Newsom

“When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.”

Kind Use Artist Actors Draws

Author:Josh Peck

“I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.”

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Author:Chance the Rapper

“I knew I wanted to be some kind of artist from about 12. I met a neighbour who drew cartoons, and I had an idea I wanted to be a cartoonist - or something that involved Indian ink, at any rate.”

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Author:Edward Ruscha

“Human nature is not amenable to prediction based on the trends or tendencies prevailing at the time. It is amenable to startling creativity of the kind practiced by great artists, directors, writers, musicians, actors, who know how to touch a chord in humans everywhere.”

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Author:Maurice Saatchi

“Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.”

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Author:Romeo Santos

“Now, there are people that are Christian artists, because they have a purpose to be evangelical for Christ. I don't feel I've been called to that yet. Now, that could change. There's no telling what kind of call God will put on my life.”

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Author:Scott Stapp

“I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.”

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Author:Kristen Wiig

“What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?”

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Author:Al Yankovic

“Though I know consciousness kind of boxes you in, it still encompasses the artists that I knew were conscious throughout history of music - they're the ones that you look at as the legends.”

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Author:Will Ferrell

“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

“I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.”

Thinking Want Kind Artist Names Depends Sells Brands Shameful

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

“I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.”

Thinking Kind Stories Artist

Author:Aaron Taylor-Johnson

“I don't have the desire to just keep every record and put it out. That's not what I do. I make records for people; that's why I just continue to be consistent, where a lot of the other top writers, they kind of fell off because they started focusing on their own careers as artists. That's not where my head is at.”

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Author:Rico Love

“What I look for when I see a piece of art for the first time is some kind of emotional, intellectual experience, that's a combination of both of those things and is informed by my knowledge and something new that I see the artist doing.”

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Author:Cheech Marin

“Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs.”

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Book:This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

Source: This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love

“These kids will make you cry, laugh... They make you feel all kinds of emotions through their writings and they share a lot with me, as an instructor, that they might not normally share with other people because they are young artists and they need a platform for pulling that stuff out.”

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Author:Clinton D. Powell

“I took guitar lessons and recorded the song in New York. It was kind of a dream. I got to pretend I was a recording artist for a couple days.”

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Author:Kristen Wiig

“Real joy is becoming exceedingly rare among artists of any kind. And I have an idea that those who can and do communicate it are always people who have had a hard time. Then the joy has no smugness or self-righteousness in it, is inclusive not exclusive, and comes close to prayer.”

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Book:Journal of a Solitude

Source: Journal of a Solitude

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

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Author:David Hockney

“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?”

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Author:David Hockney

“If the artist's will is not strong he will see all kinds of unessential things.”

Ifs Kind Artist Strong Simplicity All Kinds Not Strong

Author:Robert Henri

“Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds of music are the same--tormented and intolerant. Yet some arts not only make the artist social but make him depend upon sociability in order to succeed. Painting is one.”

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Book:The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

Source: The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain

“I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.”

Thinking Kind Reality Artist Flats Day To Day

Author:Sharon Stone

“As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts.”

Ifs Kind Art Artist Difficult Study Ambition

Book:American Letters: 1927-1947

Source: American Letters: 1927-1947

“If you study a great work of art, you'll probably find the artist was a kind of genius. And geniuses are different to you and me.”

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Book:My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

Source: My Name is Charles Saatchi and I Am an Artoholic

“Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.”

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Book:Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

Source: Norman Rockwell: Mini Masterpieces

“When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.”

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Author:Walt Disney

“America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities get the basement.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“What is it that turns people into artists? It often comes from some kind of pain or angst, a need to understand or express something. It very rarely comes from confidence, being raised by parents who want to hear what you have to say and wants to encourage you.”

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Author:Angelina Jolie

“I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“The artist may rightly venture the opinion that he does not convey ideas, does not preach, nor that he intents to convert people by using mass communication techniques.. .Better than handing out all kinds of wise advice, he could show life itself; he could awake forces lying dormant in everybody, he could launch an invitation to create direct and personal experiences.”

“All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.”

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Author:Antoni Tapies

“No academy could have given me all I discovered by getting my teeth into the exhibitions, the shop windows, and the museums of Paris . Beginning with the market - where, for lack of money, I bought only a piece of a long cucumber - the workman in his blue overall, the most ardent followers of Cubism , everything showed a definite feeling for proportion, clarity, an accurate sense of form, of a more painterly kind of painting, even in the canvases of second-rate artists.”

“Through the history of art we can see through the emotional life, and sometimes the financial security of some of the artists, some transformation. And I really believe that it's generally about the same kind of transformation and the same kind of reaction. We are a little bit less individual than we would like to believe or guess we are.”

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Author:Arman

“When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.”

People Kind Facts Artist Compare

Author:Mika

“No longer can we consider what the artist does to be a self-contained activity, mysteriously inspired from above, unrelated and unrelatable to other human activities. Instead, we recognize the exalted kind of seeing that leads to the creation of great art as an outgrowth of the humbler and more common activity of the eyes in everyday life. Just as the prosaic search for information is "artistic" because it involves giving and finding shape and meaning, so the artist's conceiving is an instrument of life, a refined way of understanding who and where we are.”

Source: Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye

“If an artist and a scientist have a common point, it is probably in the need for some kind of imaginative thinking to interpret the material they have.”

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Author:Catherine Yass

“Im interested in the liberating aspect of being totally untethered, let loose in the worst possible environments. My favorite artists are always women that do things that are so wrong... I like things to be seven kinds of wrong. If they are seven kinds of wrong, sometimes the wrongs neutralize themselves, and the whole thing becomes.”

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Author:Ashley Bickerton

“All the other editors at DC never gave me a moment's time. They would take the thing and give me a check and say, 'I'll see you in two weeks.' They never gave any kind of encouragement or information. They were very competitive with each other. They didn't want to teach an artist and then lose him to some other editor.”

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Author:John Romita, Sr.

“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.”

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Author:Barbara Kruger

“I think we typically, as Northerners, stereotype what the South is in so many negative ways. We kind of forget all the beautiful things that they contribute to make this country a country.”

Thinking Way Kind Country Beautiful Artist Forget Negative South Beautiful Things Stereotype Northerners Negative Stereotypes

Author:Genevieve Gorder

“Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.”

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Author:John Hench

“The colors I choose there was to paint the first hotel, the Disneyland Hotel. Because of the cloudy sky we had in Paris, it had to be a particular kind of color who will fight those grey days. And also something you can see when you're driving up 'There it is! We're arriving!'”

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Author:John Hench

“Walt understood all of those things, and even common things about people. For instance: Usually you get your idea of what kind of day it is by looking at the horizon, because the horizon is your eye level. So what Walt did is to eliminate the horizon.”

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Author:John Hench

“As an artist, I like working with filmmakers that have the balls to kind of imagine the unimaginable. Those are kind of the radicals that I identify with.”

Kind Artist Imagine Balls Radical Filmmaker Unimaginable

Author:Zoe Saldana

“I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.”

Thinking Kind Doe School Artist Working It Old School

Book:David Bowie: The Last Interview

Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview

“I think for a lot of artists, if you're lucky enough to have a kind of career, especially toward the end, you start to think about what the whole ensemble looks like. It's the whole that counts. The parts are given, but you don't know how the whole thing's going to look when it's all put together.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Looks Kind Ends Enough Whole Together Artist Given Careers Know How Lucky Ensemble

Author:Frank Stella

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