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Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
To be a friend of the weak-that is the artist's point of departure as well as his ultimate goal.
I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art.
I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.
It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
Being a cover artist is not like being a real artist. That's just copying what someone else did.
... an artist is a person first. He is an individual. If there is no person, there is no artist.
Artists tend to be beyond embarrassment the way little children tend to be beyond embarrassment.
Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.
The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.
I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.
Maybe that, really, is as good a definition as any of an artist in the world: a ruthless person.
Artists don’t get down to work until the pain of working is exceeded by the pain of not working.
Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.
Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.
I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
We'd love to do Space Ace 3D. It has a lot of potential. But, it is really up to the publishers.
You have to be a little patient if you're an artist. People don't always get you the first time.
I didn't say that wearing a glamorization of the rock artist was any truer from the other thing.
The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.
The sonatas of Mozart are unique; they are too easy for children, and too difficult for artists.
The artist is a kind of a seer and by nature he is optimistic because he believes in the future.
For an artist to think in terms of success is like a priest trying to think in terms of success.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.
The nation is bound together by its creative artists and not by parallel lines of rusting steel.
Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.
Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
You can't steal an artist's songs and also tell him he can't license that music to a commercial.
I admire actors and artists who devote just as much time to their life as they do to their work.
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
I didn't really go the starving-artist route. I kind of went and did massive, commercial things.
My parents cultured me a lot and they introduced me to a lot of artists, a lot of their friends.
Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
Be doin artists in like Cain did Abel, Now they money's gettin stuck to the gum under the table.
I think even when I was little there was signs that I was an artist. I've always been an artist.
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.
I've spent my life pursuing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.
The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
I studied political science and international relations, so I never considered myself an artist.
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
I didn't want to be pigeonholed as an artist. I wanted to be able to have other stories to tell.
I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.
You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.