I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

The classical artist can be recognized by his sincerity, the romantic by his laborious insincerity.

I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

Living in a state of psychic unrest, in a Borderland, is what makes poets write and artists create.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

When People magazine called me, I did the job on Ansel. I'm older than Ansel and he has to mind me.

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!

It is not the being paid money in advance that jars the sensitive artist: it is the having to work.

I'd say my style is all me, It's different from other artist even in my city or outside of my city.

I don't care who's playing. Even if it's my favorite artist, I'm probably not gonna go and see him.

The mission of the artist in an over-technologi zed society, is to call the old magic back to life.

But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.

A creative artist works on his next composition because he was not satisfied with his previous one.

Now what I like is that other artists know my work and are interested in me or want to collaborate.

We define content very broadly. Representing chefs, designers, makeup artists - it's all important.

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.

I've always been a fan of Nigerian artist D'banj. He's now signed to Kanye West's Good Music label.

All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

True dreams and visions should be as visible to the artist as the phenomena of the objective world.

I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

I want to be acknowledged as not just a pretty idol who sings and dances on stage, but as an artist

If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

The Wayne Education Building was the first classroom building that we have done on the Wayne campus.

I think you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your status as an artist to be true to who you are.

All great artists know that part of their task is to light up the distance between two human beings.

We all name ourselves. We call ourselves artists. Nobody asks us. Nobody says you are or you aren't.

When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

A lot of my friends are musicians or artists, and their talent always pushes me to think creatively.

When artists make art, they shouldn't question whether it is permissible to do one thing or another.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

Unauthorized use of these MP3 files is really creating a problem for artists in the music community.

The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.

There's such a freedom about being an artist... You're not accountable - you're this renegade thing.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

I was thinking that people have to believe you're crazy in order to take you seriously as an artist.

Failure is the most important part of an artist's training, and one you cannot afford to do without.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Folk rock was my real roots. I did a few gigs as a folk artist, in the style of Fairport Convention.

Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

The candle aimed its spark of light at heaven, like an artist who consumes himself to become divine.

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