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Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
Do you need an audience to create work, or does not having an audience liberate you and make you a truer artist?
Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.
An artist earns the right to call himself a creator only when he admits to himself that he is but an instrument.
It's very hard to find artists in the history of western art who don't make portraiture ideological in some way.
As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.
I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.
Artists have to show us what is not going well within the person and within the society, not try to cover it up.
The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.
An artist is waiting for the audience to understand the work. A craftsman is working to understand the audience.
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
I get a lot from great '90s artists like Juliana Hatfield, The Pixies, and bands like That Dog and The Breeders.
I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.
I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.
I compose for very limited people in Bollywood, as I am not a playback artist. I compose my songs and sing them.
I've always enjoyed watching makeup artists - but I'd like to go to the extreme and do monster makeup in movies.
I want to go on tour with the most exciting artists, and I want to make sure that I have songs with all of them.
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
The search for an equilibrium is essential for the artist, to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.
We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
The artist must paint as he would speak. I don’t want people to speculate what I mean, I want them to understand.
Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is.
I have to live authentically at all times. And that's part of what makes me an artist. I'm not scared to do that.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."
Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.
It isn't that I dislike artists, but I can't stand anyone who puts on those ponderous airs of a man of character.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
I am a very lucky artist in the sense that I have had all my life a lot of opportunities to do what I want to do.
An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.
You can be an artist, work hard for your work and also share while trying to create community with other artists.
As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.
I am an artist because the knot is so powerful I just can not, nor want to be, anything else or do anything else.
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.
The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.
There's a point where you find yourself tiptoeing as an artist, and then you know that you're in the wrong place.
Artists don't often know much about writing... but they don't bray so much about writing as writers do about art.
I've always said I've got the coolest fans, and I brag about you like grandchildren when I talk to other artists.
We must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donn´e: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
The artist enriches the soul of humanity. The artist delights people with a thousand different shades of feeling.
I don't want to be an artist, go on tour and make a video and wear sexy clothes. I would just love to make music.
The artist has a special task and duty... reminding people of their humanity and the promise of their creativity.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.