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I love men. I've always been drawn to poets, artists, and madmen. Sometimes all three in one
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.
When you touch and change peoples lives with a song, that's when you've made it as an artist
I have realised that my worst day as an artist is still better than my best day as a lawyer.
I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.
As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.
The more hedonistic you were, the better...I very much subscribed to that as a young artist.
My style is not trendy by any means; my inner artists loves to shine through in my wardrobe.
No amount of pay ever made a good soldier, a good teacher, a good artist, or a good workman.
The big labels have less of a stranglehold on artists and how they record and where they go.
When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
The New York Times is the worst newspaper in the world and it's extremely vicious to artists.
If I've grown as an artist, it will be represented in the art. There's no need to explain it.
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.
You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.
I don't know of any artist who started off in the 50's who's making it now with new material.
Perhaps the male has become an artist in the creation of many hidden ways of killing himself.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative. It is the last-ditch stand of the artist.
Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.
Death is pitch-dark, but colors are light. To be a painter, one must work with rays of light.
I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.
Secular artists see themselves with performance; they are more self involved, presentational.
Most artists never get a chance to be Picasso, but that doesn't mean you would stop painting.
However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.
I use a retouching varnish which is made in France, Libert, and that's all the varnish I use.
Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.
Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments.
I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.
I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say
I wouldn't consider myself an outsider artist because I have a university degree in painting.
I believe that if it were left to artists to choose their own labels, most would choose none.
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
I try to get as close to a childlike level as possible because we were all artists back then.
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.
I'm really excited about what the future holds and to grow as an individual and as an artist.
Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.
I don't train like a mixed martial artist. I don't respect the sport like everyone else does.
The true artists is one who insists on producing a supply, whether or not there's any demand.