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I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.
The artist's personality, built upon strong desires and compassionate vision, is by its nature prone to depression.
In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.
Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.
I think kids need to be allowed to be more creative and learn more about artists these days, so I'm all about that.
If we treat each other as if we are geniuses, poets and artists, we have a better chance of becoming that on stage.
If an artist is any good at all, then he or she will have a later phase that's more interesting than the early one.
My favorite actor is Sir Ben Kingsley - nobody is as good as him, in my opinion. I think he's so good as an artist.
What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.
The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
The artist must express the summation of his feeling, knowing and believing through the unity of his life and work.
An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.
Photographers and artists contribute a lot to the world and have a right to exist in relative security and comfort.
To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.
What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist?
The way an actor is trained doesn't ultimately have much bearing on my work. I'm interested in the actor as artist.
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
Writing for other artists helped me figure out that magic you have to capture to make everyone connect with a song.
We artists give daily thanks for the miracle of our planet and for the inclination and the capability to honour it.
Working with younger artists kind of tests your judgment. You're not always right, but when you are, it's exciting.
The most exciting thing is not doing it. If you fall in love with someone and never do it, it's much more exciting.
What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience.
Before, I'd photograph anything. I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body.
Just doing a project because its an opportunity wont create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
If they're [his clients] not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
We should self-examine and talk about things like our own white privilege and these phony senses of being an artist.
Writing, acting, music, comedy. A deep love of literature and books. Thank God for all the artists who've helped me.
I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.
When you devote yourself to being an artist, you have to stay on your craft and always try to get better and better.
I am working on a list for collaborations and it's just another way to share your artistic talent with other artist.
As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.
The public wants to understand and learn in a single day, a single minute, what the artist has spent years learning.
Authors and artists are still afraid of breaking away as far as [William Burroughs] did... And he did it in the 50s!
I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.
I've got two brothers. One's older - the artist - and then my younger brother is an ecological economist - a farmer.
Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.
The kids really enjoy what they do. I check with them constantly to make sure that they're really happy to be there.
I think that sometimes fans or supporters say "I love this artist" but they may not realize that he loves them back.
I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.
People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work.
I think that as an artist, the more that you can do to diversify, and kind of challenge yourself, the more you grow.
I wasn't a club kid. I wasn't an artist. I was just a foreigner, trying to soak it all up. I had quite a lot of fun.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.
I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.