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An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.
It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally public.
I don't really have any secret shames. If I like an artist, I like them. Nothing to feel embarrassed about.
I really admire artists that are willing to take a different approach and a different angle to their shows.
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
All really great artists, Jackson Pollack, John Cage, Beckett or Joyce - you are never indifferent to them.
Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His work means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
Certain artists have a role to echo the echoes of the people and that's what I'll be doing on my next album.
I think the most important thing any artist can do is to constantly push themselves and improve their craft.
Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next.
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.
I do see a big difference in the American work ethic compared to the British work ethic in a lot of artists.
For me, if I saw my favorite artist in the store, I would probably just tell them three words and walk away.
My job is to be an artist and thus I use different media to deal with the status of the body in our society.
Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.
When you're an actor or any kind of artist, you use your life as something to draw from in every experience.
The motivation to paint seems more pure, or at least more personal, when the artist is doing it for herself.
I'm not sure that is correct but I love that interpretation - that we artists never go out of self-portrait.
I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.
Every photo shoot, I'm always asking the makeup artist what they're using on me, and I'll go out and get it.
Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff
I want people to take me seriously as an artist and to hear that I have something to truly say and to offer.
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.
When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?
When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.
The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
You try not to talk about the past too much as an artist. Instead, you focus on the continuity of your work.
My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.
I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of.
Don't listen to the politicians, always look at the artists, they're the first to tell us where we're going.
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
There seem to be a lot of black artists making very good videos that I'm surprised aren't being used on MTV.
Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.
If we artists are to survive this period at all - we will survive as spokesmen, never again as entertainers.
It's give-and-take and back-and-forth, that constantly allows you to grow as an artist and as a human being.
Feeling more comfortable onstage is something I've worked on - it's really about just being the artist I am.
I think young artists are always inspiring because they are coming at worlds from a different point of view.
Lately I've been a workaholic. I'm in the studio all the time and I've helped to produce a couple of artists
The great scientist dares to differ from accepted 'facts' - think irrationally - let the artist do likewise.
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
Technology has taken its toll on albums in a tough way. The CD format and MTV really played havoc on artists.