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May those who have touched our canvas with their eyes and hearts grow knowing the joy and wonder of an artist of life.
I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.
An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.
I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.
I was involved with the anti-apartheid movement through my work as an artist and also through my political commitment.
I think it’s a responsibility for any artist to protect freedom of expression and to use any way to extend this power.
I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.
There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.
It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!
As an artist I have always felt that my task is not to create meaning but to charge the air so that meaning can occur.
Artists know failure. It is not tragic that they know failure; it is only tragic if they know failure and little else.
Listen up and I'll tell a story about an artist growing old. Some would try for fame and glory; others aren't so bold.
When artists who are not associated with the typical infrastructure get recognition, that becomes a cultural movement.
I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.
Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.
I'm a really stoic artist. I'm serious a lot of times. I can joke and play sometimes, but most of the time, I'm stoic.
An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?
What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time.
There is no such thing as a dumb poet or a handless painter. The essence of an artist is that he should be articulate.
The principle of parsimony is valid esthetically in that the artist must not go beyond what is needed for his purpose.
The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and he does it without destroying something else.
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him.
What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel.
Nowadays, when kids decide they like an artist, they'll absorb everything that artist has ever done in a single night.
We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.
I think, basically, I'm an abstract artist. I just think that that's not even an issue. I think everything's abstract.
I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face.
To me, the ideal artist-to-audience relationship is a one-to-zero relationship. The artist should be granted anonymity.
As an artist, there are times when you need to take a leap of faith... For me, it's important that the gaze is correct.
All people are struggling to be creative in some way, and the artist is the one who has succeeded in this task of life.
I definitely want to work with people who are artists and who are interested in being their best version of themselves.
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
The thing I like about the band [Dead Child] is that there's no pretense. We aren't even trying to be artists or poets.
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.
I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
I think that it's much easier for a recording artist to become an actor than for an actor to become a recording artist.
I love to dwell on the thought that the artist is next in divinity to the saint. He, like the saint, performs miracles.
Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.
I know there are people who are praying for my downfall, but they're going to be like, 'Wow, Xan's actually an artist.'
[Miley Cyrus] got a fantastic voice. I do think she's a fantastic artist and does great songs. I wish her all the best.
I'm not the kind of artist who can just gear myself to a particular radio format without looking like a fashion victim.
Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.
To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.
Hip-hop is a competition culture. It's based around, "My DJ is better than you. My graffiti artist is better than you."