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I will push myself in different ventures that I believe will make me a better artist, dancer and person.
Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.
I have to believe that when I finish a project, that I will not only grow as an artist, but as a person.
Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.
I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.
Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.
A writer or any suffering artist-to-be is just an instrument too finely set to the human condition [...]
Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.
The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.
I don't think [price] reflects if the work is good or bad.A good artist shouldn't be nervous about that.
Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.
I want to say 90% of stuff out there is just crap that got made. The main point is that it got produced.
Everyone wants immediate success, immediate celebrity, and that doesn't produce what used to be artists.
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.
As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.
The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist
Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.
No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.
Artists are able to do well in the political arena because of fame, if only they can educate themselves.
I don't think there's anything to be afraid of. Failure brings great rewards - in the life of an artist.
It's sad that some people still believe that artists die poor. This is not the case in this day and age.
Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
If you're a conscious rap artist and you're worried about Billboard charts, you're gonna have a problem.
Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.
I don't really have a gimmick or a 'thing.' I'm one of the few artists who gets to be himself every day.
It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.
Sometimes it is the artist's task to find out how much music you can still make with what you have left.
I suppose I could try to be some avant-garde artist if I wanted to, but that doesn't interest me as much.
As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.
If the picture needs varnishing later, I allow a restorer to do that, if there's any restoring necessary.
Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.
The artist is the most interesting of all phenomena, for he represents creativity, the definition of man.
I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
Artists and writers have to understand and live the truth that what we are doing is nourishing the world.
The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.
I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.
Yeah, I put out some goofy stuff. I had no idea who I was as an artist at all before 'Posse on Broadway.'
A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
When I started I would have called myself an artist but the discipline I chose in art was music and text.
What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit.
If my legs are showing, the makeup artist adds a tiny amount of foundation to body lotion and rubs it in.
I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell - to say things that people are inspired by.