I've been a jazz artist playing pop and R&B my entire career.

I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

All artists are entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are artists.

Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.

It is an artist's duty to be on the wrong end of the see-saw.

I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.

I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of.

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

I love hip-hop and you can't tell me I'm not a hip-hop artist.

Ive always seen myself as sort of this funky, eclectic artist.

Working with other artists and sharing your passions is great.

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

I don't think any artist really knows why a song gets popular.

Artistic honesty sometimes prevents an artist from being born.

The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.

I love being a struggling artist; it makes me feel very alive.

The worst thing you can do as an artist is to repeat yourself.

Creating Your Character is Like an Artist Creating a Sculpture

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.

The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

It's an artist's right to rebel against the world's stupidity.

Art distills sensations and embodies it with enhanced meaning.

It wasn't until school that we realised that we were abnormal.

I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want.

The superior artist is the one who knows how to be influenced.

There are too many artists, too many dealers and too much art.

I am a human being and an artist: I really, simply, surely am.

An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

I lack the magnificent richness of color that animates nature.

Every man who is not an artist is a traitor to his own nature.

That's part of being an artist; you have to be that sensitive.

Art is what is unnecessary, but necessary only to that artist.

People still look at Michael Jackson as being a Motown artist.

I value those artists who embody the expression of their life.

To be a mentor for up-and-coming artists is right up my alley.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

Poverty is the great reality. That is why the artist seeks it.

Whether it's an orgy or a cocktail party, I know how to do it.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.

No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone.

An artist is only an ordinary man with a greater potentiality.

The rôle of the artist is that of a soldier of the revolution.

I'll always be grateful to the public of intelligent amateurs.

The role of the artist is to be the witness of life, timbuktu.

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