Best artist & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Ifs Knows Years Doe Stills Helping Artist Stuff Levels Know How Records Fields Studios Software Microphones Laptops Playing Fields Years Of Experience

Author:Roger McGuinn

“Here is a fear for me, I never wanted to be one of those guys that was defined by a body of work 20 years old.”

Years Body Wanted Artist Guy Defined

Author:Todd McFarlane

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

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Author:Frank Ocean

“The nice thing about the world that I've been able to inhabit for the last couple of years is that I'm given a lot of freedom. Not all artists really get that.”

World Years Able Lasts Artist Given Nice Couple Nice Things

Author:Brad Paisley

“Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval method of working. I'll go back and use something that disgusted me 15 years ago but that I had enough sense to think about. Some artists change dramatically. I see my work more like history being written.”

Thinking Years Art Done Enough Use Artist Written Waste Years Ago Method Possession Had Enough Disgusted

Author:Edward Ruscha

“Artistic qualities that once seemed undeniable don't seem so now. Sometimes these fluctuations are only fickleness of taste, momentary glitches in an artist's work, or an artist getting ahead of his audience (it took me ten years to catch up to Albert Oehlen). Other times, however, these problems mean there's something wrong with the art.”

Years Mean Art Sometimes Problem Seems Artist Quality Audience Taste Ten Artistic Momentary Fluctuation Glitches

Author:Jerry Saltz

“I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.”

Years Art Made Artist Black White Decision Careers Creative Pieces Years Ago Magazines Artistic Apology Black And White Publication Prestigious

Author:Andrea Thompson

“I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.”

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Author:Kate Voegele

“I think Taylor Swift is a really good artist. I feel like her personality shines through everything she does, her music, her fashion, her style. She won Album of the Year, and she’s a really good writer. I’m a song writer so I respect artists who write their own songs. She won Album of the Year when she was 18 or something like that so, I think she’s dope.”

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Author:Mike Posner

“It’s time for a streaming service that is centred around and driven by the artist community directly. Artists are prolific beyond a new recording every two years. They perform, tour, record, and collaborate constantly. Uprise.fm will not only make these rare and unique recordings available, we will ensure that the artists are fairly compensated for this work.”

Years Two Artist Community Records Unique Available Driven Two Years Streaming

Author:Daniel Lanois

“The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.”

Want Years Artist Time Minutes

Book:The writings of a savage

Source: The writings of a savage

“It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.”

Years Looks Artist Difficult Painting Shock Difficult Things

Author:Andrew Wyeth

“Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?”

Years Artist Understanding Week Months Cost Reflection Understood Flash Dilettantes

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“I am interested in the non-dramatic moments in life. I`m not at all attracted to making films that are about drama. A few years back, I saw a biopic about a famous American abstract expressionist artist. And you know what? It really horrified me.”

Knows Years Moments Film Artist Saws Drama Dramatic Abstract

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“I don't think there is room for 'artistic temperament.' Professional artists understand art is a business. If businesses ran their companies like many artists do their careers, they would not stay open a year.”

Ifs Thinking Years Art Artist Rooms Business Company Careers Art Is Artistic Ran Temperament Artistic Temperament

Author:Jack White

“Many rules for the creation of colour schemes have been published in recent years, but, while they are popular in commercial studies, I know of no creative artist who employs them. They are, per se, restrictive; their use precludes any chance of adventuring in this interesting field.”

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Author:Walter J. Phillips

“A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.”

Ifs Years Looks Artist Careers Profession Fathom Trenches

Book:Affirmations for Artists

Source: Affirmations for Artists

“A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.”

Years Persons Book Might Young Artist Rooms Education Four Thousand Four Years Blank Blank Canvas

Author:Robert Genn

“I am a famous artist. I make millions. But I frequently see debut shows of unknown artists with prices that are double of mine... what they're really doing is barely getting by and helping me sell 1,000 paintings a year effortlessly, because they make my paintings look like such a bargain. Thank you to all the egotistical art students!”

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Author:Mark Kostabi

“I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.”

People Thinking Years Artist Chance Starting Greece Starting Over Philippines New Places New Artists

Author:Thalia

“I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.”

Years Artist Existence Majors Labels

Author:El-P

“The worst part is that if you become part of a major - all these independent labels become farm teams for your corporate parent. Basically, you do all the work for years, blowing up an artist - you discover them, blow them up, you build their fan base. And then that artist is like, "Okay, now I'm here. Now I want more. I want to be bigger." And you're either going to be able to accommodate them, you're going to be able to figure out how to take that step with them, or you're going to lose them.”

Ifs Want Years Able Artist Parent Loses Steps Team Fans Worst Figures Majors Okay Bigger Independent Blow Labels Corporate Farms Accommodate Blowing Up

Author:El-P

“Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work.”

Years Littles Seems Artist Values Asks Money Effort Five Percent Responsible

Author:Joe Fafard

“Unnur Birna is a Reykjavik-based violinist and singer. She has performed as a session musician with countless Icelandic and international artists while recording and appearing as a solo artist as well. Unnur has joined me as an unpaid guest on a few Icelandic shows in recent years, so it is a great pleasure to return the favour and appear on one of her songs at last. This new track, Sunshine, came about in Italy, written as an ode to sunlight and happiness after fleeing the dark winter in Iceland”

“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

“A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.”

Want Years Artist Certain Song Responsibility Band Singing Sticks Solo

Author:Christopher Owens

“Detachment and involvement: the artist must have both. The link between them is compassion. It has taken me over fifty years to get a glimmer of what this means.”

Years Mean Artist Compassion Taken Fifty Links Involvement Detachment

Book:A Circle of Quiet

Source: A Circle of Quiet

“I've never been the big recording star I'd love to be some day. I've had lots of hits off and on through the years but I've never had the success of other artists - one hit after another back-to-back-to-back and big hits, where every song is going to be number one. I'm not greedy or nothing. I just want everything. Is there something wrong with that?”

Want Years Bigs Artist Song Stars Numbers Greed Greedy Through The Years Success Of Others

Author:Dolly Parton

“It's so easy to get into the same routine. A novel every two years; perhaps, improving technique. But I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in doing something fundamentally important--and therefore, it needs time. And what I've been doing, really, is avoiding this pressure to get into the habit of one novel a year. This is what is expected of novelists. And I have never been really too much concerned with doing what is expected of novelists, or writers, or artists. I want to do what I believe is important.”

“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

“It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.”

Should Years Young Artist Company Struggle Color Colour Deprivation Young Artists

Author:El Greco

“Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.”

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Author:Trevanian

“The bourgeoisie's weapon is starvation. If as a writer or artist you run counter to their narrow notions they simplyand silently withdraw your means of subsistence. I sometimes wonder how many people of talent are executed in this way every year.”

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Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“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.”

Years Firsts Art Artist Actors Stage Students Poet Moved University I Realized California Performers Deaf Festivals Signing Moved On Interpreting Interpreter Coordinating I Moved On

Author:Jack Jason

“Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.”

Knows Years Looks Littles Artist Hours Produce Appearance Favors Neglected

Author:Vanna Bonta

“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

“A chef is a chef, a cook is a cook; a lorry driver is a lorry driver and a designer is a designer. I've never heard anyone say that Philippe Starck is a chef. The important thing is dialogue. If I said to Norman Foster that he was a chef he'd say "No", but he might have a dialogue with chefs. People have said to me for many years that I'm not a chef and that I'm an artist instead, but I always say, "No, I'm a chef." I just have dialogues with designers.”

People Ifs Years Said Important Might Artist Heard Important Things Dialogue Cooks Designer Drivers Chef Lorry

Author:Ferran Adria

“I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.”

Years Heart Real Past Artist Traveled Real Things

Author:Bill Gaither

“An artist of understanding and experience can show more of his great power and art in small things roughly and rudely done, than many another in a great work. A man may often draw something with his pen on a half sheet of paper in one day . . . . and it shall be fuller of art and better than another's great work whereon he hath spent a whole year's careful labor.”

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Author:Albrecht Durer

“In recent years, you've probably read the articles about major recording artists who have decided to practically give their music away, for this promotion or that exclusive deal. My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet...is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.”

Giving Years Young Artist Girl Asks Realizing Deals Industry Majors Decided Articles Promotion Exclusive Music Industry Hope For The Future

Author:Taylor Swift

“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

“Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.”

Years Artist Next Cases Century Winter Bridges

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“We regard those other cultures such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1000 or 2000 years ago - as "undeveloped".”

People Years Believe Artist Culture Years Ago India Regard Behave Other Cultures

Author:Arthur Erickson

“I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.”

Years Remember Artist Found Waiting Space Technology Needed Ten Mountain Models Difficulty

Author:John Hench

“For so many years, I've been an actor acting in other people's movies, and in 'Unstoppable,' I'm producing it, and I have an opportunity to create some of that excitement with style and form and different color templates and things like that. So, as an artist, it's really exciting.”

People Years Different Form Artist Actors Opportunity Acting Style Color Exciting Excitement Unstoppable Different Colors

Author:Kirk Cameron

“Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.”

Years Artist Rational Indifference

Book:Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

Source: Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

“The 'Cercle et Carré' group owes its existence to my encounter with the Uruguayan painter Torrès-Gracia in 1929... However difficult our relationship, his obstinacy matching my patience, this unholy team of fire and water was bound to produce something. Towards the end of the year, after consulting sundry artists, including Arp, Mondrian, and Van Doesburg, we drew up the program for a new group and launched a magazine which was be called 'Cercle et Carré'.”

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Author:Michel Seuphor

“Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.”

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Author:George Jones

“They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.”

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