The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

There's nothing an artist needs more - even more than excellent tools and stamina - than a deadline.

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.

My job as an artist is to present the material. My job as a woman is to receive from it what I need.

To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

An artist must struggle to accept the shape of this universe - and achieve some important successes.

Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.

Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

There are songs and artists now who are trying to do the same thing: be honest to their experiences.

But I want to deepen as an artist, and working with Shakespeare definitely points in that direction.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something.

It is the artist who is truthful and it is photography which lies, for in reality time does not stop

Realism is condemned by those artists whose poverty of technique does not permit them to express it.

Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

That is the creative artist - a penalty of the creative artist - wanting to make order out of chaos.

I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

As an artist in this day and age with social media, you feel more like an object than you do a human.

There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.

Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.

Talking to all those great writers and artists for the magazine was a form of graduate school for me.

I think it's an essential fact for any performer or artist to fail as poignantly as they can succeed.

A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Direct address has been a consistent tactic in my work, regardless of the medium that I'm working in.

Every artist obviously wants to sell a million records and do the MTV cribs thing, but I'm realistic.

I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

The object of the artist is the creation of the beautiful. What the beautiful is is another question.

I need to keep it spontaneous as an artist, so for me to repeat a face would be redundant and boring.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

I was poor. I struggled big time, living hand to mouth so I could be the kind of artist I want to be.

There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don't want to work.

They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.

It doesn't take much to be a successful artist-all you need to do is dedicate your entire life to it.

The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.

He revolutionized music videos. Before Michael Jackson, MTV refused to play African-American artists.

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