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“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.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Age Able Artist Born Duty Demand Unique Instinct Paint What You Want Being An Artist

Author:David Luiz

Thinking Way Persons Artist Passion Emotion Concepts Finished Enthusiasm Collapse Masterpiece Exhaustion Great Passion

Author:Richard Estes

“Frightening for many artists is promoting themselves. They feel it is... artificial and not what we want to be known for. Yet if we start thinking about what we do as important and important to offer to people, not to sell... it allows us to shift the way we think about promoting ourselves.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Important Artist Known Offers Sells Selling Artificial Frightening Promoting

Author:Adam Leipzig

“I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.”

Thinking Knows Artist Causes Destiny

Author:Robert Engman

“Variation does not mean evolution. If an artist varies his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or it might be for the worse.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Doe Might Artist Changed Expression Evolution Variation Vary

Book:Picasso: style and meaning

Source: Picasso: style and meaning

“When I write I don't aim to shock people, and I'm surprised when I do. But I don't think that anything that occurs in life should be omitted from art, though the artist should present it in a fashion that is artistic and not ugly. I set out to tell the truth. And sometimes the truth is shocking.”

People Thinking Should Writing Art Sometimes Artist Fashion Truth Is Aim Ugly Artistic Shock Telling The Truth Shocking

Author:Tennessee Williams

“People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.”

People Thinking Want Mean Littles Kids Artist Girl Fighting Ability Results Harder Rejection Dancer Unnecessary

Author:Laurieann Gibson

“I said to Mr. Pavarotti once ... a marvelous man and a great artist ... I said to him ... "Maestro, I'm having trouble closing out a note so that it's almost as thin as a butter knife ... finish it out quietly like that." I said, "I have trouble doing that. What do you think I should do?" He said, "Justa close up your mouth." That's all he said, and I fell on the floor. I thought he was gonna give me a dissertation.”

Thinking Men Giving Should Said Artist Trouble Mouths Give Me Notes Knives Marvelous Great Art Closing Great Artist Maestro Dissertation Pavarotti

Author:Frank Sinatra

“In literary art, as in the art of the architect, the painter, the musician, signs that the artist is thinking of his own achievement more than of his subject always offend me.”

Thinking Art Artist Subjects Achievement Musician Painter Architect Literary Art

Book:Facts and Comments

Source: Facts and Comments

“And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.”

Thinking Men Persons Artist Can Do Modern Movement Ought One Man

Book:Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

Source: Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute

“I don't think that either self-deprecation or self-aggrandizement is among the defining qualities of an artist... Beethoven could have been forgiven if his symphonies had gone to his head. Gretchaninoff could also be forgiven if his Dobrinya Nikititch went to his head. But neither one could be forgiven for writing a piece that was amoral, servile, the work of a flunky.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Has Beens Self Artist Quality Gone Pieces Forgiven Could Have Been Defining Symphony Self Deprecation

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

“Obviously, it's designed by record company executives who want a cheap success, and they don't want to give money to anybody and they don't want to give contracts, so they've created this world of very bubbly teenagers who want to be "idols" and they think all they have to do is mime quite well and they've made it. ... But it's not the problem of the kids, it's the problem of the record companies, because it's just an inexpensive way for them to have so-called, I won't say "artists", but erm...You're nodding, you know what I mean.”

“Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?”

Thinking Way Sometimes Whole Artist Choices Creative Example Assuming Stores Video Magazines Dirty Groceries Grocery Stores Chaps Time Magazine

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.”

Thinking Want Long Different Running Artist Creativity Fit Musician Thrive Categories Performers Long Runs Vary Entertainers Vocalist

Author:Christina Aguilera

“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.”

People Thinking Mind May Art Artist Civilization Comfortable Mark Agree Good Things West Not Sure Being An Artist

Author:J. M. Coetzee

“The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley.”

Thinking Artist Incredibles Evident Parallels

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“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

“I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.”

Thinking Should Hands Jobs Artist Fashion Imagery Hand In Hand Intertwined Fashion And Music

Author:Lady Gaga

“The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.”

Thinking Important Artist Community Factors

Book:A Pictorial Autobiography

Source: A Pictorial Autobiography

“And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.”

Thinking Knows Heart Mean Littles Hands Artist Poet My Heart Drawing Bedroom Notebook

Author:Conor Oberst

“I don't think it's necessary for artists to have any formal training in painting or art history, but I do think it's essential to continually experiment with different subject matter, types of paint and methods of painting.”

Thinking Art Different Matter Artist Subjects Painting Type Essentials Training Method Paint Experiments Formal Subject Matter Art History Different Subjects

Author:Ron Parker

“I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.”

Thinking Should Artist Money Enemy Painting Significant Plenty Earning Resent Earning A Living

Author:Arnold Friberg

“No one escapes that moment of innocence when the world attacks him and installs within him the spirit of opposites... As long as everything within you is saying yes and no, dark and light, with big earth-shaking ideas, you come nowhere near art, I think. Light and dark don't exist for us as artists. Light is something given to you and you're allowing it to pass through.”

Thinking World Long Art Ideas Moments Bigs Light Earth Spirit Artist Given Dark Opposites Innocence That Moment Allowing Within You Shaking Light And Dark Saying Yes Yes And No

Author:Milton Resnick

“What influenced my style was the feeling that I was a lousy artist... I was like the ugly duckling, not knowing what I was, style-wise, and thinking I was all on my own... I evolved into a style that couldn't be compared to anyone else.”

Thinking Feelings Artist My Own Knowing Wise Style Ugly Not Knowing Ducklings Ugly Duckling

Author:Jim Rowe

“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.”

Thinking Long Art Artist Imagination My Own Ability Responsibility Gone Concerned Being An Artist

Author:Pierre Coupey

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Kind Artist Common Materials Scientist Profession Imaginative

Author:Catherine Yass

“At one point cinema and photography weren't treated as art. Now it's crazy to think they're not. The key question is "What is art today?" The most important artists of the last 20 years are Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive, because the influence they have had is incredible and they've changed the world. That is art.”

Thinking World Years Art Important Today Jobs Lasts Artist Crazy Influence Changed Keys Photography Incredibles Treated Cinema

Author:Ferran Adria

“I think if the copyright regime focuses on the people we are supposed to be helping, the artists and creators, and builds a system that gives them the freedom to choose and to protect and to be rewarded for their creativity, then we will have the right focus.”

People Ifs Thinking Giving Helping Artist Creativity Focus Protect Creator Supposed To Be Regimes Copyright Freedom To Choose

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I think the difference between me and some of the other YBAs [Young British Artists] was that I was ambitious for the work, and not ambitious for myself.”

Thinking Young Artist Differences British Ambitious

Author:Rachel Whiteread

“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

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.”

Thinking Needs Book Jobs Artist Comfortable Comic Comic Book

Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick

“The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.”

Thinking Book Life Is Artist Found Language Listening Active Concrete Shelter Towers Ivory Active Life Ivory Tower

Author:Sean O'Casey

“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

“If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it.”

Ifs Thinking Artist Hate Associates Just Do It Come Back To Me Redos

Author:Isaac Mizrahi

“I don't think that was too successful. Because I always thought that the two of them should have been more separate. Also I had planned the monorail station to be in the center. So that one day you would have go to World Showcase and then the other day to Future World.”

Thinking World Should Has Beens Two Artist Successful One Day Should Have Stations Should Have Been Showcase Future World

Author:John Hench

“It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.”

Thinking Needs Book Stories Artist Grows Audience Growing Up Couple Comic Sophisticated Comic Book Gang Rivals

Author:Todd McFarlane

“You know, there's a saying in art that in order to be universal you must be specific. So I think every artist feels that he is dealing with specific things but that it also has significance universally.”

Thinking Knows Feels Art Artist Order Universal Significance

Author:David Cronenberg

“I think artists should be able to do different things whenever they want and I like the way I am. I'm like - I ain't gonna say the only street rapper, but the only mainstream, new, young street rapper there is right now and I'm doing well with it.”

Thinking Way Want Should Wells Different Able Young Artist Streets Right Now Different Things Rapper Mainstream

Author:Meek Mill

“I think all of us, looking back on our careers and our lives, there'll probably be a "road not taken" that we'll regret and mourn. Certainly, artists will always feel that way, especially when the path taken was more commercial than the one not taken.”

Thinking Way Feels Artist Careers Path Taken Our Lives Regret Looking Back Mourn Road Not Taken

Author:Liz Garbus

“A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically about killing the kid. People think you have to forget about the kid to become an adult and deal with grown-up problems. But, that's bullshit. We are still kids. It's the same, you just grow up. You're a kid with more experience.”

People Thinking Stills Real Problem Kids Artist Grows Forget Deals Growing Up Adults Killing Bullshit Good Art Good Artist

Author:Quentin Dupieux

“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 labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.”

Thinking Want Made Artist Band Discovery Mark Responsible Labels Somewhere Else Being Responsible Another Time New Discoveries

Author:Steven Morrissey

“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

“I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back.”

Thinking May Sometimes Artist Realizing Fans Supporter

Author:Prince Royce

“I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.”

Ifs Thinking Art Moving Artist Conversation Meaningful Back And Forth

Author:John Baldessari

“Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.”

People Thinking Artist Sucker Groupie

Author:Immortal Technique

“You need response from the fan to fuel your sense of musical rebellion. It's very symbiotic, it's very cyclic in a way. You can't have one without the other. So I think the rebellion is reflected in the audience, but at the same time, the artist has to have that passion too. And I think once you're a fan for life, you feed each other's sense of passion and rage and whatnot. You really can't have one without the other.”

Thinking Way Needs Artist Passion Audience Fans Response Musical Rage Fuel Rebellion

Author:Corey Taylor

“Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want my music to be. I'm not precious at all when it comes to producing music and I can bring that to an artist and let them expand their horizons.”

Ifs Thinking Want I Can Feelings Would Be Artist Easy Songwriting Horizon Restriction Producing Music

Author:John Congleton

“Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.”

People Thinking Whole Home Dream Would Be Artist House Havens Cameras Paint Piano Capture Efficiency Editing Equipment Supplies Microphones Recorders

Author:Will Smith

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