Aesthetic value is often the by-product of the artist striving to do something else.

In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.

On the artist's journey we are redefining and reconfiguring ourselves and our lives.

The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before.

Women artists need to break barriers in order for women's experience to be valuable.

Studying the model and realizing it is sometimes very slow in coming for the artist.

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

I'm the No. 1 artist in the world right now ... I am the No. 1 human being in music.

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.

I think for an artist what is most important is to touch as many hearts as possible.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

It is so much worse to be a mediocre artist than to be a mediocre post-office clerk.

Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.

I will never be the best dancer or artist. I will be growing until the day I retire.

When I was younger I thought I was an artist, and inspiration would just come to me.

An artist can have an intention, but the viewer has their own subjective experience.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.

Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

I'm going to keep proving people wrong, whether it's my record label, other artists.

There's an assumption that because I'm an artist, I've got all the time in the world.

I’ve always been interested in leaders and rule breakers and artists and politicians.

I like to find an artist who inspires me and get into their world and challenge them.

I just listen to quite random songs; I don't like really particular artists or bands.

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

The artist should once and forever emancipate himself from the bondage of appearance.

I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

A great artist is not one who merely fits into a genre but one who defines the genre.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

Artists, by definition innocent, don't steal. But they do borrow without giving back.

The artist finds a greater pleasure in painting than in having completed the picture.

My father was a professional artist all his life who encouraged my path as an artist.

A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible.

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

If only the people around you know youre an artist, then youre doing something wrong.

Because I didn't go to film school, you learn so much from a lot of creative artists.

I am an artist who works very well under pressure, in fact. I like to have deadlines.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

Let each of us dream of a community of artists and work to make that dream a reality.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

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