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It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
Just because you're an artist doesn't give you an excuse to be an asshole.
In his attempt to develop the beauty he sees, the artist develops himself.
I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.
I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.
I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.
The artist creates the material that we look back upon as part of history.
To me, the technique was almost irrelevant; it was what was coming across.
An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.
I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work
As a general rule, I tend to collaborate with artists whose work I admire.
If I had to pick one artist to tile my bathroom I would go with MC Escher.
The true martial artist yields to the weak, while withstanding the strong.
Usually, I cut songs by other people that are artists that I already love.
I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist.
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.
The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.
Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
I never think of myself as an artist. I think of myself as making a point.
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
I love artists that just do what they do with so much passion and emotion.
To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist.
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.
Most artists are doing basically the same thing - staying off the streets.
Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
It's a big responsibility to help someone express themselves as an artist.
Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
Great artists are like loaded guns. They are dangerous in anybody's hands.
I said to myself, "If the government thinks I'm an artist, I must be one."
If the artist starts evaluating himself, it’s an enormous block, isn’t it?
As artists, you always want to push yourself. There's always new territory.
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.
[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.
I wanted to be acknowledged as an artist, not just some kiddie-book artist.
There's no doubt about it - gardeners are the only true artists these days.
Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.
You are an artist when you make someone feel something deep and unexpected.
I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.
I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.
I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is in fact the gestation of a soul.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.