ARTIST in a Sentence

Learn ARTIST from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
284 example sentences for ARTIST, such as:
1. She is really a fine artist.
2. Last night she was a great artist.
3. The artist looked at her with scorn.
4. The artist brought his paints with him.
5. He earned a precarious living as an artist.
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 Meanings and Examples of ARTIST
artist
 n.  a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
Classic Sentence: (154 in 11 pages)
1  The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  What is that beauty which the artist struggles to express from lumps of earth, said Stephen coldly.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  Beauty expressed by the artist cannot awaken in us an emotion which is kinetic or a sensation which is purely physical.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  This supreme quality is felt by the artist when the esthetic image is first conceived in his imagination.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  The image, it is clear, must be set between the mind or senses of the artist himself and the mind or senses of others.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  The personality of the artist passes into the narration itself, flowing round and round the persons and the action like a vital sea.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalizes itself, so to speak.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  "You don't understand me, Harry," answered the artist.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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10  Harry," said Basil Hallward, looking him straight in the face, "every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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11  An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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12  Don't take away from me the one person who gives to my art whatever charm it possesses: my life as an artist depends on him.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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13  "No, Harry," answered the artist, giving his hat and coat to the bowing waiter.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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14  Last night she was a great artist.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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15  I should have shown myself more of an artist.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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Example Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  Paula is the only artist to achieve four number ones from a debut album.
2  The artist's agent receives commission on a percentage basis.
3  The artist led off in the discussion on modern art.
4  The artist initiated the girl into the art world in France.
5  Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.
6  The artist limned a good likeness of his wife.
7  The artist looked at her with scorn.
8  This is clearly the work of a superior artist.
9  The artist had depicted her lying naked on a bed.
10  The artist brought his paints with him.
11  She's commissioned an artist to paint her portrait/paint a portrait of her.
12  He earned a precarious living as an artist.
13  An artist sculpted a full-size replica of her head.
14  She wanted a famous artist to paint her picture.
15  She is really a fine artist.