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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition.
As an artist and a songwriter myself, I like to feel connected to modern culture and watch how sounds change.
Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.
I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.
I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.
An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
Artists must literally go into a zone of intense seeing so the subjective and objective almost fuse together.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
The artist can't paint, sing, or dance without emotion: if he does, he is a machine masquerading as a person.
As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your ass.
I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.
A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support
A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit.
There are so many great artists, I think, who kind of suffer from being icons, legends, acknowledged masters.
As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion
To me, it's an honour to be accepted as a hip hop artist, it gives me a lot of opportunity to express myself.
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.
Artists do not run away from non-being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being.
Did you know Richard Nixon is the only president whose formal portrait was painted by a police sketch artist?
I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.
I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
Without artists, the order which we find in nature, and which is only an effect of art, would at once vanish.
I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me
Don't be too dismissive of children. While it's true that few children are artists, all artists are children.
A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints.
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.
The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.
A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.
I'm not in a competition with any other artist, anything that's goin' on - I'm strictly competing with myself.
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires.
There are no rules about investment. Sharks can be good. Artist's dung can be good. Oil on canvas can be good.
I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.
From the top of the quarry cliffs, one could see the New Jersey suburbs bordered by the New York City skyline.
One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
I'm an artist...The difference is that I don't tell anybody. I refuse to give them new reasons to laugh at me.
I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.
Any artist will tell you that when they get negative criticism of their work, it's personally hurtful to them.