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Most artists have retired too absolutely; they grow rusty, inflexible to the flow of currents.
I believe that there is no doubts about who I am, an artist who loves music, above everything.
'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.
For an intelligent estimate of your technique go to another artist working in the same medium.
Artists have a sensibility that others don't have. They have a way of reading into the future.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with.
As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes.
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
An artist is an artist because he is not happy with the world, so he creates his own existence.
In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.
Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.
The artist, even when he imitates nature, always feels himself to be not a slave but a demigod.
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human.
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created by the activities of the mind
People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.
If you're an artist and you have dreams don't stop fighting because dreams really do come true.
Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.
Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary.
I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.
Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.
All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?
Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process.
An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.
Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
...As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.
My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
The artist is the compass which, through the raging of the storm, points steadily to the north.
I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
For the mystic what is how. For the craftsman how is what. For the artist what and how are one.
The wise artist makes peace with the fact that he will understand less than he had anticipated.
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers
I feel much more comfortable as an artist collaborating with others because I feel more mature.
The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns out refrigerators.
I love being able to be the artist of the whole picture, as opposed to just one of the brushes.
Artists are often excellent businessmen. They have to be. Otherwise they do not remain artists.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Humanitarian convictions are the linchpins of our salvation, and these an artist must champion.