I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.

The great artist, whether he be musician, painter, or poet, is known for this absolute unexpectedness.

Most artists I know are private, and quiet folks who often spend most of their days alone in a studio.

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

Artists have the unique ability to tell stories. It's not charts and graphs that get people to change.

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.

I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.

[Phil Wood] was a great artist, and he knew things. He could be mildly conversant in several languages.

I'm a huge fan of Geffen records. Everything about them - their artists, their videos, their marketing.

With 'Twilight,' I felt the actors needed to be up-and-coming artists that haven't been recognized yet.

An artist feels vulnerable to begin with; and yet the only answer is to recklessly discard more armour.

We artists love to talk tough, but we're just as sentimental as everyone else when it comes down to it.

I wasn't sure I was an artist, so I thought maybe I just was throwing ideas out for people to consider.

I listen to other artists, cuz its like every artist wanna hear something that they never heard before.

I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

Before she was a King, my mother was a peace advocate, a courageous leader, and an accomplished artist.

As an artist, all I need is my paints and brushes - and someone to drag me away when the canvas is done

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can't rate her highly enough.

There has never been any proper commitment to marketing these artists and their music. We are not Sony.

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.

I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.

When I look at a body it gives me choice of what to put in a painting, what will suit me and what won't

I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.

I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.

Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.

A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to ones work.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Sometimes we were really surprised. There were major artists that would come by because they wanted to.

Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

I think that once an artist has proven herself and you sell lots of records, you should be compensated.

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to me.

Being a good artist is the toughest job you could pick, and you have to be a little nuts to take it on.

No fate holds more splendour for an artist, than the one which greets his effort with such enthousiasm!

Of the whole public not a handful can understand the artist's point of view or the writer's conscience.

Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

I am a great artist and I know it, it is because I am that I have been able to endure so much suffering.

You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.

The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration.

'The Disaster Artist' isn't really about 'The Room.' It's about friendship and how dreams can come true.

When I practice, I am a philosopher. When I teach, I am a scientist. When I demonstrate, I am an artist.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

I don't work from drawings. I don't make sketches and drawings and color sketches into a final painting.

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