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When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.
At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.
If I was an artist, and I was in the studio, then whatever I was doing in the studio must be art.
I've never seen myself as an artist. So when that happened it was like a whole other crazy thing.
I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.
Independent artists and labels have always been the trendsetters in music and the music business.
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.
To know the whole world is nothing when it is compared to knowing your own inner mystery of life.
There's about 260 rooms in the new castle which you go through, but it's all about the game play.
I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist.
Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.
Right from the beginning, I always strived to capture everything I saw as completely as possible.
Don't overpluck your eyebrows. A make-up artist told me this once, and I've always remembered it.
Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.
Anybody auditions for X-Factor it's because they want to be famous, not because they are artists.
I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.
The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.
Some people say to me, Isn't it too bad that people discovered you so late? I never thought that.
No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
Try to keep the rebel artist alive in you, no matter how attractive or exhausting the temptation.
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
The technician should never forget that he is an artist, the artist never that he is a technician
Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.
To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.
Nature is the best and really the only real vocabulary that an artist can legitimately work with.
The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.
I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.
I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
Artists like to talk about what they do with people who've read their books, or seen their films.
I know I'm going to be the next big hip-hop artist. I just want to save hip-hop... that's my job.
I really don't wear a lot of makeup, but my makeup artist Priscilla Ono has taught me the basics.
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
the independence of the artist is one of the great safeguards of the freedom of the human spirit.
The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
I feel closer to the artist I was when I was 19 now then I have done in other stages of my career.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.
I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.
I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.
America hates the artist. It will not admit: the artist is my soul and I want to kill off my soul.
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.