2168 Artist Quotes for You to Enjoy

What matters is what happens in the soul of an artist when you're playing. Mary Gauthier

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I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist. Mary Gordon

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I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked. Mary Karr

When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess! Mary Lambert

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I used to be on the kitchen floor, crying, wasted and thinking of lyrics. That was the only way I could create - as a tortured artist. I've learned that you can be stable and taking care of yourself and still create beautiful work. Mary Lambert

Cease to be a drudge, seek to be an artist. Mary McLeod Bethune

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I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective. Masi Oka

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In 'Star Wars: Episode II,' when Jango Fett is chasing Obi Wan Kenobi through an asteroid field, they needed a big asteroid to shatter into a million pieces, and I had to figure out how to do the fracturing, write the code, and show an artist how to use it. Masi Oka

I enjoy changing; I think it's more fun to try something different than to just do what you did last time. As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new, and keep it exciting. Mat Kearney

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As an artist, you tend to gravitate to the opposite. I know, when I finish a song or an album, I'm interested in doing something completely new. It doesn't always happen, but that's the idea. My poor fans - I don't know if they love that or hate that. Mat Kearney

I try not to see myself as anything, as that would be embarrassing. But if I had to label myself, I'd probably say I was an artist due to the fact that I enjoy working within the arts on different platforms, of which comedy is just one. Matt Berry

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You have to remember you're an artist and get hungry. Matt Bomer

You Remember Hungry Get Artist

Obviously, when you finish something like 'White Collar,' there are so many opportunities to just do something similar because people want that kind of thing, and I really have tried to stretch myself out, for better or for worse. I hope that I'm able to get to continue to do that, as an artist, and I'm not the guy who shows up to be charming. Matt Bomer

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When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist. Matt LeBlanc

You Trust Writing Freeing Very Artist Really

Any artist, the work you do, if it's a painting or if it's a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else's life. That's what's fun about sharing art. Matthew McConaughey

I'm from a family of bankers and businessmen, and here I am, the artist, the black sheep. Matthew Quick

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I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist. Matthew Sweet

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An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public. Maurice Chevalier

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I am not an artist. Maurizio Cattelan

Am Artist

I just believe in collaboration. I mean, I've written songs on my own, you know, but I think if the artist has something to bring to the table - someone like Pink, for instance - where they have something to say, it makes your job easier and more special. Max Martin

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My mother worked as an artist until she was 96. Maye Musk

Mother Until She Artist Worked

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