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Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.
An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
You cannot hide; your growth as an artist is not separate from your growth as a human being: it is all visible.
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.
Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
I prefer artists who are creative more than artists who are technical, I think everybody would agree with that.
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.
My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.
I become an actor, a quick-change artist, as if I can trap the Prince of Truth in the act of switching a style.
To be an artist means to search, to find and look at these realities. To be an artist means to never look away.
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people.
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.
Nature is my main source of inspiration - I will never stop taking hints from what I call 'the greatest artist'
The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.
I would advise young artists to paint as they can, as long as they can, without being afraid of painting badly.
I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.
Let the artist show his world, the beauty that was born with him, that never was before and never will be again.
A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.
I would say that most serious artists have a pretty complete idea of what they're going to do before they do it.
If you are any kind of an artist, then validation . . . can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway.
There's nothing wrong with technology. It's when technology is the story and not the artist, that's the problem.
You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
Maybe the artist becomes the marshal. It'd probably be a very different kind of society with artists in control.
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.
To become romantic artists, we must pierce the armor that hides our hearts, and the piercing is not comfortable.
Self-taught are those without formal education. Most self-taught artists have missing ingredients to their work.
I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.
Being an artist is more of a mindset, a way of seeing things; it is no longer so much about producing something.
I think for every artist it's important to always keep this amount of doubt until the very last day of shooting.
To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.
I print giclees for artists and photographers for a livelihood. My original idea was to somehow combine the two.
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.
I consider myself more of an international artist than I do a one-territory artist, which I think is a blessing.