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Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
Artists are the worst [people]. They are selfish, self-centred; they don't care what happens.
I think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent.
Whenever I wrote songs - particularly back then - it would always be for a particular artist.
If you're an artist who's built on marketing and hype then most likely I won't listen to you.
Good taste is the first refuge of the non creative. It is the last ditch stand of the artist.
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.
I've always tried to - when I've been able to - support young artists, no matter what medium.
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.
An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.
The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.
Obviously Spawn was at the top of the charts at that point so you get a lot of opportunities.
Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.
Do not strive to be a modern artist: it's the one thing, unfortunately, you can't help being.
Clever people can copy the handwriting of an artist - it's like forging a person's signature.
As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does
Artists speak the truth to the public without fear of retribution or damage to their careers.
The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.
I like Simon Cowell - look at how many great artists have come out of the U.K. because of him.
Computer technology is so built into our lives that it's part of the surround of every artist.
I feel if you hold yourself as an artist first and foremost, the barriers of gender come down.
Whether or not the artist can fulfill a social function is a question that remains unanswered.
I think hip-hop has more to do with rock and roll. Kanye West is, in many ways, a rock artist.
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
The artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
Relationships of any kind are powerful, and they always influence an artist. It's inescapable.
If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.
I know the families that I photograph extremely well and have known them for a very long time.
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something
My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
We have to construct communities of artists because they don't naturally exist in our culture.
You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
I'd be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.
All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.
I don't fall into the category of tortured artist. But it's not made me more or less anything.
Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
I want to make decisions as to where I want to go as an artist, and to get to it in my own way
Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.
If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.
Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, and a lot of American artists were my greatest influences.
Without artists, the sublime idea men have of the universe would collapse with dizzying speed.