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“The awesome thing about being an artist? You can't be fired from your own mind.”

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“Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.”

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“I never considered myself an artist. I aspire to be an artist, but I never thought I had the depth or substance or gift to be an artist. I do think I have some talent, but it doesn't go as far as being an artist.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“Everybody needs a release. Sometimes people mosh at my shows. That inspired me to make records to get the people more crunk. People need a release and I enjoy being an artist that can do that for people.”

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Author:Yelawolf

“I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die.”

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Author:Lady Gaga

“The main thing that attracts me to Buddhism is probably what attracts every artist to being an artist - that it's a godlike thing. You are the ultimate authority. There is no other ultimate authority.”

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Author:Laurie Anderson

“Being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.”

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Author:Laurie Anderson

“The thing about being an artist is that you evolve so quickly, you grow, you learn, you change, you find yourself hating work that you made months prior. That's the hard part about making an album, but every couple days I fall asleep listening to my album front to back and I lay there feeling so proud of what I did.”

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Author:Halsey

“Being an artist and having a following can be a very scary thing because idolization makes you question your inner role in the universe. A lot of people get caught up in this idea of, "Wow! This world does revolve around me," and it most certainly does not. It's the exact opposite; these people don't exist for you, you exist for them.”

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Author:Halsey

“Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.”

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Author:Chris Johnson

“So there's a cloud of rage around me, but being an artist kind of changes that. No matter what you thought coming in, what ignorant thing you believed, you're in show business for two years, you're like, "OK, I was wrong." It's hard to be mad at any particular group of people when you're an artist.”

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Author:Chris Rock

“I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.”

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Author:John Lithgow

“I feel like fashion and style is a big part of being an artist.”

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Author:Chanel West Coast

“Over the years I have learned that creating art has made me happy. I used to be a lawyer and I'm much happier being an artist.”

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Author:Nathan Sawaya

“I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.”

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Author:Jan Brett

“I am interested in art as a means of living a life; not as a means of making a living.”

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Author:Robert Henri

“Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life.”

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Author:Ben Shahn

“Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.”

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Author:Chris Robinson

“Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.”

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Author:Sara Blecher

“For me, being an artist with a high profile is a good thing for art.”

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Author:Tracey Emin

“I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.”

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Author:David Shrigley

“Sometimes being an artist is a real drag. It can be incredibly bureaucratic.”

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Author:Micah Lexier

“There's so many ways to be a voice and that's what I'm figuring out. Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better. There are many (Latino) stories that need to be told and haven't been told right. If I could help be that voice then that's what I'm going to do, because this is a reality for me.”

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Author:Richard Cabral

“I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.”

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Author:Damian Loeb

“Learning how to code and program computers when I was a kid was one of the best choices I made growing up. By writing code, I learned how to bring my dreams to life, how to budget, and how to build stuff. Whatever path you choose in life - being an artist, an engineer, a lawyer, a teacher, or even a politician, you will give yourself a huge leg up if you learn how to code.”

“Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication.”

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Author:David Finckel

“A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.”

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Author:Christian Keiber

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

“I think that being an artist is more an approach to life than an approach to work.”

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Author:Andrew Levitas

“We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.”

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Author:Geoff Rickly

“Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.”

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Author:Wade Guyton

“I didn't think of being an artist until after I went away to boarding school. There were other things to be interested in. And it seemed like a nightmare.”

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Author:Elizabeth Neel

“I just really feel so grateful to Sundance because I've always been an artist and I've never been able to make a living at being an artist until Sundance.”

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Author:Lynn Shelton

“I had my little teenage craziness where I wanted to be a doctor, I admit. I have to confess at one point I considered even going to school. Hopefully, I went back on the right track being an artist.”

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Author:Mathieu Demy

“There's no map for being an artist.”

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Author:Seth Godin

“When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.”

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Author:Raekwon

“Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet.”

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Author:Luc Delahaye

“[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics.”

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Author:Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

“In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.”

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Book:Novels, 1926-1929

Source: Novels, 1926-1929

“Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one but ourselves can keep us from being artists, rather than marching forward like mere consumers, corporate robots, sheep. No one but ourselves can keep us from dancing with life instead of goose-stepping. In every moment recognizing our own creative imagination, the living picture we paint on the canvas of our lives. Everything is imagination. And imagination is freedom, but it can also be conditioning, bondage.”

“I never stopped being a mother, and I never stopped being an artist. Which is probably why my kids are so creative. When I'm with my kids I'm creating but I'm still a mom. I don't wear two different hats. My kids have always been on the set with me. I was breastfeeding on set. None of my kids would take a bottle so they could not leave my side for a very long time.”

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Author:Jada Pinkett Smith

“Why do we make records? Because we want to say something. Why are you in art? Because you want to say something. The second you don't have anything to say, you stop making art - you might start making product. And I'm interested in being an artist.”

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Author:Patrick Stump

“I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.”

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Author:Meredith Monk

“What's exciting about being an artist, still, and what I'm really finding is awesome is that you can do it until you drop. I don't care how many lines I have on my face - I'll keep doing it!”

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Author:Nikki Sixx

“The integrity of being an artist for Frank Stella means going into the unknown.A great artist is somebody who's not scared to reinvent themselves and to start all over again. And some artists do it once, twice, three times in their career. He's done it probably a dozen times or more.”

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Author:Frank Stella

“There's just some dysfunctionalism with artists. There are good things and bad things about being an artist, and the good thing is, sometimes you get an inside line on what's really happening. You develop these strange antennae that clue you in to what's really going on.”

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Author:David Bowie

“The Illusionist is the storyteller in so many ways. Symbols become his obsession. It's not simply about creating plot - one must also grapple with theme. Nowadays we have a lot of characters and a lot of action but it's hard to sit still and really meditate on meaning, worldviews, concepts, ideologies even. I make my Illusionist do what I've had to do, often with copious amounts of stumbling and frustration. His real humanity comes from being an artist, I think - his creativity is what makes him a man.”

“Practicality continues to be a challenge for me - it's at odds with being an artist. I actually had a career on stage in New York - not a brilliant career or I'd still be doing it - but I got enough work to keep my agent and my union health insurance.”

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Author:Debra Dean

“Maybe being an artist is a kind of detachment. You're in the cave, you're isolated, you're apart from everything and it's there you can find out what you believe in, or what is - what is the nature of being, as you see it.”

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Author:Gerald Stern

“Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.”

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Author:Wendy Starland

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