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Artists paint pictures. The best artists paint pictures for children's books.
Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation
Every artist has to face his own demons and evolve his own method of working.
A still photographer is a mechanic. He's not an artist, despite all you read.
I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.
My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.
I suspect that money is a far greater distraction for the artist than hunger.
Every time I've made a radical change it's helped me feel buoyant as an artist
The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.
My favorite artists have always been Elvis and The Beatles and they still are!
I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
Any artist manages his own business along with his manager. Every band should.
The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.
Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
Every artist has to make their own statements and they have to live with them.
I do not like to be thought of as avant-garde or some kind of didactic artist.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
The life of an artist is a continuous journey, the path long and never ending.
Above all, an artist must never be too easily satisfied with what he has done.
True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.
I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.
In his garden, every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation.
An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.
An artist's life is supposed to lead toward his masterpiece, not away from it.
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.
I lived there [ in New York City] as an artist, but never as a Chinese artist.
Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.
We wouldn't be artists, writers, painters, musicians, if we weren't sensitive.
The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
Emotion combined with an artist's discipline is the rarest thing in the world.
Few people know that I am also an artist; I truly enjoy sketching and drawing.
The goal of the artist is not to resolve life's mysteries, but to deepen them.
If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.
My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.
Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't.
Mother Nature is the true artist and our job as cooks is to allow her to shine.
Mistakes and dead-ends often mean more to these artists than any proven problem
As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.