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The artist has to transcend a subject, or he loses the battle. The subject wins.
An essential portion of any artist's labor is not creation so much as invocation
I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself.
The real function of the artist is to give fresh vision to their own generation.
Every good artist I know, I always think works hard, we're working all the time.
I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.
When I want to go be Chickenfoot, I go out and I'm the artist. It's all musical.
Being an artist, its all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.
Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.
Artists are visited by the Muses, or tormented by their own passions and demons.
Nobody has a perfect life. What you see on the screen is the best of the artist.
Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
If the chemistry between me and the artist is good, then that's half the battle.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
I want to grow as an artist and I'm taking a step out, I want my music to mature.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!
It's always exciting to get together with fellow artists to support a good cause.
It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.
The abstract artist has given material existence to many unseen worlds and tempi.
Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
All artists are constantly looking for something and they don't always know what.
If artists cannot speak up for human dignity or rights, then who else will do it?
If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
Nature does not proceed in a straight line, it is rather a sprawling development.
I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.
A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.
No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'
Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.
I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.
The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
The photographs that are art have to be separated from the rest - then preserved.
It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
Anytime an artist puts your name in a song, it's unbelievable. It never gets old.
I'm a firm believer in that there are MCs and there are artists. I love' em both.
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
I'm an artist, but I'm also a businesswoman, and sometimes you have to play hard.
If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.
I think every artist would love to just please themselves musically all day long.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
Every artist and every song has an idea, and the producer's job is to capture it.
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.