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Kenneth Hari is a true artist and in my opinion a psychic. When he is painting you, he feels your heart and soul.
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
I just try and get the best out of an artist - we all have a responsibility to fill the world with awesome songs!
A movement only becomes a movement of substance, size, and power when the artists say 'we want to add our voice.'
The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.
The artist tries to see what there is to be interested in... He has not created something, he has seen something.
Artists are people with a genius for finding a new answer, a new connection, or a new way of getting things done.
A man is an artist only at certain moments, by an effort of will. Objects have the same appearance for everybody.
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this
The artist who chooses the difficult muse; or only has a difficult muse; should not be surprised with the results.
A lot of artists don't survive, do they? You work very hard and finally you get what you want and it destroys you.
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.
It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.
The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.
Couple of artists got words for me, that's never fun. They say it's on when they see me, that day don't ever come.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
As a person, I'm a good person who shows up for my friends. I do my best to be good. As an artist, I have no idea.
Artist refers to a person, willfully enmeshed in a dilemma of categories, who performs as if none of them existed.
If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.
I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.
Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better world.
All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.
Every person has parallel tracks. You have your personal life or your life as an artist, or whatever it is you do.
The avant-garde poet or artist tries in effect to imitate God by creating something valid solely on its own terms.
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing
Kitsch is art that follows established rules in a time when all rules in art are put into question by each artist.
I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.
To teach is to learn... If we ever think we know all there is to know about our creativity we are dead as artists.
My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
The best thing about the term 'performance artist' is that it includes just about everything you might want to do.
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.
Artists take on an alias that's suitable for their style of music. Everyone had a nickname when they were younger.
I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
Most artists want first and foremost to be loved, secondly to make history, and money is a distant third or fourth.
I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.
It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
In the creative act, the artist goes from intention to realization through a chain of totally subjective reactions.
I refuse the title of artist to those who owe their reputations to a physical deformity. I regard them as buffoons.
I do know that for all the artists it's very important to speak in a vernacular that can be understood by everyone.
I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.