"Being an artist is a job for life." — Brian Eno

"Being an artist is a job for life."

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236 Quotes by Brian Eno

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I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them…
Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.
Composition is a way of living out your philosophy and calling it art.
As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.
When I was at art college, the teachers who helped me were not the ones I agreed with, or the…
What people call unemotional just doesnt have a single overriding emotion to it. The things that I like best are…
Since I have always preferred making plans to executing them, I have gravitated towards situations and systems that, once set…
Instead of shooting arrows at someone elses target, which Ive never been very good at, I make my own target…
The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for…
Well, I am a dilettante. It's only in England that dilettantism is considered a bad thing. In other countries it's…
More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.

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Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor… — Chinua Achebe
Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist. — Wystan Hugh Auden
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an… — Norman Ralph Augustine
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did. — Sebastian Bach
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political… — Kevin Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money. — Lord Acton
I have a master plan as an artist. I've always said I'm not going to be punching nobody's clock. I… — Erykah Badu
Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint… — Erykah Badu

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