Artist Quotes

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done. Jeff Koons
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I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests. Jeff Koons
You Think Would About More More And More Feel Like Always Artist Intent Interests Your Specific
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently. Jeff Vandermeer
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When I started off as an actor, the last thing I wanted to do in the world was make money. I was under the impression, when I started off as an actor, that the more money I made, the more it would diminish from my creativity and my capacity to be an artist. Jeffrey Wright
Creativity World Money Made Diminish Would More Make Off Impression Artist Wanted Capacity Actor Thing Started Last
I wanted to be a writer and an artist. Learning to type as quickly as I could think was a needed skill and part of my long self-directed apprenticeship. Jeffrey Zeldman
Learning Long Think Type Apprenticeship Could Writer Part Quickly Artist Wanted Skill Needed
When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry. Jenni Rivera
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I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still. Jenni Rivera
Myself Me Woman People Being Myself Still Amazes Artist Just Being Interested Necessarily
I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I'd never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven't since - the world will be a greyer place without him. Jennifer Connelly
Time Me Genius World Be Kind Hero Will Met Before Extraordinary Kind David David Bowie Never Had He Since Bowie Him Became Because Without Artist Place Who
Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know? Jennifer Jason Leigh
You Through Still Go Same Artist Different Painter Compare Actor Phases
I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist. Jennifer Jason Leigh
Mom Woman Admiration Inspiring Had She Always Artist Much
Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die. Jennifer Lopez
Day You Until Because End Die Artist Being Who Start
Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time. Jennifer McMahon
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I think art, more than anything else, helps humans to synthesize emotion and to synthesize parts of ourselves, so therefore, as an artist, I feel a responsibility to try and facilitate that synthesis. Jennifer Nettles
Art Try Responsibility Think Else Synthesis Ourselves More Facilitate More Than Anything Emotion Feel Parts Than Artist Anything Anything Else Therefore Helps Humans
Having spent time on the Broadway stage definitely helps one's confidence in terms of feeling just validated in that world. Most people only know my voice as a country artist. Jennifer Nettles
Time Confidence People World Feeling Country Stage Validated Spent Broadway Definitely Having Only Voice Know Most Terms Artist Just Helps
On the worst days, I don't feel like an artist. Jenny Holzer
Worst Feel Days Like Artist
When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting. Jenny Lewis
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Sometimes people come to my shows and think I'm a Christian artist, and they put their hands up in the air, like they do. But first of all, I'm a Jewish girl from the Valley, and I'm from Los Angeles. It's funny to be misinterpreted. Jenny Lewis
Funny People Sometimes Girl First Christian Think Air Valley Angeles Misinterpreted Put Come Like First Of All Los Los Angeles Up Hands Artist Shows Jewish
I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band. Jenny Lewis
Myself Band Solo Solo Artist Never Part Envisioned Always Artist
Social media has changed my life, and it taught me that you can make your own path and really find who you are as an artist, in whatever capacity. Jenny Mollen
Life Me You Path Social Media My Life Whatever Own Changed Find Make Artist Taught Social Capacity Really Your Who Media
I'm a folk artist at heart. Jenny Scheinman
Heart Folk Artist
R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either. Jeremih
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I worked selling tickets for Dodger Stadium; I delivered pizza; I did every job under the sun. It's the part that sucks as an artist. But I've learned at the end of the day you just have to enjoy your life. Jeremy Luke
Life Day You End Of The Day Job Enjoy Every Sun Delivered Part Tickets Learned Dodger End Selling Did Artist Just Stadium Pizza Worked Your Sucks
If you've ever liked an artist or someone who then does something or is accused of something extremely corrupt, and your moral conscience won't allow you to accept that artist, the truth is then that creates a void in your life. Because then something you loved was taken from you. Jerrod Carmichael
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As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work. Jerrod Carmichael
Work Important Through Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Shines Artist Intention The Most Important Your Special Thing
I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly. Jerry Lawler
Everybody Draw Well Because Amazed Very Effortlessly Artist
These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus. Jerry Saltz
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