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Many artists in Mexico fight to be the Latina Madonna. I don't want that! Never! Maybe she's the American Gloria Trevi!
An occupation that has no basis in sex-determined gifts can now recruit its ranks from twice as many potential artists.
Lots of people say it's the song. For me, it's not always the song - there's something bigger: the spirit of an artist.
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.
Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.
I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.
I believe that the artist doesn't know what he does. I attach even more importance to the spectator than to the artist.
There's a perception that if an artist produces another artist, they're going to imprint on them. But I'm the opposite.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
Beyoncé built her f–king foundation from the bottom. I think that’s the exact career every female artist wants to have.
[Albert Camus] wasn't writing under the influence of the Nobel Prize. That was an external thing for the artist in him.
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.
As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.
It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
A great artist can really enter the logic of any particular mazurka and fully understand the language of Chopin's music.
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
The model should only serve the very private function for the painter of providing the starting point for his excitement
Everything that would begin to make somebody a good student would tend to make him or her a poor artist, and vice versa.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.
If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.
You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.
Maybe my work looks a little crazy, a little insane, but I don't really see myself as a crazy artist or a shaman artist.
I always drew. I was, you know, the school artist. I was the person who made the posters for the prom. That's who I was.
I think I'm inspired mostly by other artists that aren't actors, like writers or singers or artists, for being so brave.
The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.
The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...
I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.
I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.
What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.
With streaming, everything is focused on singles. That means an artist's depth doesn't have the chance to shine through.
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.
My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.
It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it's all manufactured.
It makes me sad when I see artists who come alive when they go onstage, because, gee, I really come alive when I'm home.
Women are emotional! And being an artist and a woman is probably more difficult because you have more stuff to overcome.
The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye.
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.
I am a horrible visual artist. I can't fix a car, sew, knit, cook, etc. Statistically, there is more I don't do than do.
I'm a huge fan of R. Kelly's. He's a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.
I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
Passion is the very fuel of inspiration. Artists, of all people, must be willing to share their passions with the world.