Best one-thing & artist Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I don't want to be an artist that gets stuck doing one thing. I don't want to be an artist who people look back at and say, 'His early work was really great.”

People Want Looks Artist One Thing Stuck Really Great Early Work

Author:Ryan McGinley

“When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.”

Art Artist One Thing

Author:Sol LeWitt

“An artist's failures are as valuable as his successes: by misjudging one thing he conforms something else, even if at the time he does not know what that something else is.”

Ifs Knows Doe Artist One Thing Failure Valuable Conform

Author:Bridget Riley

“We are often like rivers: careless and forceful, timid and dangerous, lucid and muddied, eddying, gleaming, still. Lovers, farmers, and artists have one thing in common, at least - a fear of 'dry spells,' dormant periods in which we do no blooming, internal droughts only the waters of imagination and psychic release can civilize.”

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Book:The solace of open spaces

Source: The solace of open spaces

“In life we all go through different situations that cause you to reflect. I had the opportunity to be married to a wonderful person. And for some reason two good people couldn't make a good thing work. But in life, the one thing that I love about being an artist is that you can sometimes use the pain that you go through to make beautiful things.”

“In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic, conventionally moral, and they are held in deep affection by those who are suspicious of the great arts. Popular artists can be serious, like Frederick Remington, or trivial, like Charles Dana Gibson; they can be men of genius like Chaplin or men of talent like Harold Lloyd; they can be as uni versal as Dickens or as parochial as E.P. Roe; one thing common to all of them is the power to communicate directly with everyone.”

“If you want to be an artist, go to every art gallery, if you want to be in movies, see movies! You have to participate in whichever world you're trying to enter! You have to know what's going on. You can be the best artist in the world but if you don't know one thing about which gallery to go to, you're never going to get it shown in the right place. Learn a little bit about the business of whichever art you're trying to get into. Without it, you will be lost.”

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Author:John Waters

“I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.”

Thinking Artist One Thing Fronts Television Cameras Agree Trade Add Crowds Really Cool Trade Offs

Author:Brett Dennen

“The one thing I'm jealous of a signature-artist situation is that if you just do one thing and slight variations on it, you wouldn't have to kill yourself to get a show done. I'm sick of killing myself.”

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Author:Jim Shaw

“I don't aestheticize anything. I don't even use lights. The working girls do one thing all day: They make themselves pretty. That's their job and their money. In a way, I had the best makeup artists, hairdressers, and art designers in the world.”

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Author:Michael Glawogger

“When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.”

Today Artist One Thing Creating Immortal Masterpiece

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“An artist needs to become familiar with that which is most hidden from the self by the self. For this one thing which one fears to know is often the driving force in one's life. These recognitions seen in art are the difference between decent, extraordinary and great.”

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Author:Pat Steir

“Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.”

Helping Artist One Thing Modern Strive Modern Art

Author:Salvador Dali

“The one thing that I will never forget, going forward, from my experience on Southland is that, as an artist and as a professional, I prepare so different, now that I've had that experience. And I've taken the preparation that we learned on Southland to other things, and it's just made me that much stronger.”

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Author:Shawn Hatosy

“The one thing I've learned in the last ten years is that successful artists don't get paid to write and sing songs, they get paid for the psychological roller coaster they're going to have to ride. That's the hard work.”

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Author:Enrique Iglesias

“Every artist's world is an individual experience and no one thing can prepare you. You have to go in and go where those roles lead you - just allow it to happen and follow your path.”

World Happens Artist Individual Roles Path One Thing

Author:Kalup Linzy

“The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a world from the smallest part of a thing.”

World Artist One Thing Tasks Smallest

Book:Auguste Rodin

Source: Auguste Rodin

“The camera is first a means of self-discovery and a means of self-growth. The artist has one thing to say - himself.”

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Author:Minor White

“One thing about Kurt [Cobain] is before he was a musician, and before he was a rock star, he was an artist, and an artist with a capital A. What that means is that he had to create. It wasn't something that he chose to do - it chose him.”

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Author:Brett Morgen

“I had thrown my body in for art... I had thrown myself into this game for art. You know, I was not a very good artist. But this was, like, one thing I could do. (On being photographed nude playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at Duchamp's 1963 retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art.)”

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Author:Eve Babitz

“It's much harder, much more work to be your own artist, and it's hard for me to just want to do one thing. I love doing my own music, but I really have to get into a groove with it, which has been difficult over the last few years because I've had so much great work coming in.”

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Author:Gail Ann Dorsey

“One thing that's important to point out is that this kind of populism has a long and mixed history. It's part of this tradition of problematic anti-elitism where the elites are always the liberal class - the intellectuals, the professors, the artists - and not the economic elites. Why are we so mad and aggrieved at newspaper editors but not at corporate executives? I think we need to look more at the latter, at economic elites.”

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Author:Astra Taylor

“One thing that's really pulled me in to helping artists create their album is that I get to help them tell a story. It's about the way you frame that story and finding the best way to tell that story.”

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Author:Emily Lazar

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