#artist

In the place where I was a child, there were no artists and there was no art, so I really didn't know what that meant. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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Sometime during the mid-50s I said, 'I am an artist.' Before that, for many years, I had said, 'I'm going to be an artist.' Then I went through a change of mind and a change of heart. What made 'going to be an artist' into 'being an artist', was, in part, a spiritual change. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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This image of wanting to be an artist - that I would in some way become an artist -was very strong. I knew for a long, long time that that's what I would be. But nothing I ever did seemed to bring me any nearer to the condition of being an artist. And I didn't know how to do it. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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I always saw myself as a multi media artist. ↗

— Holly Johnson

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If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to. ↗

— Kesha

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You never know what an artist is going to create next. ↗

— Kesha

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I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound. ↗

— Kimbra

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It's a really cool time for artists who want to strive for a little more depth in what they want to say to come forward. We live in a very fast world right now. We've got all this media and music which is so accessible to us, it's here one minute gone the next. ↗

— Kimbra

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