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I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!
If a man ain't nothin' else, then he's an artist. It's the only thing he can claim to be that nobody can prove he ain't.
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
I have been the artist with the longest career, and I am so proud and honored to be chosen from heaven to be invincible.
The kind of people who become graphic artists may not be mathematically inclined. They're artists, artistically inclined.
Sad to hear that George Michael has died.He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.
The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
Every artist joins a conversation that's been going on for generations, even millennia, before he or she joins the scene.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
The ivory tower of the artist may be the only stronghold left for human values, cultural treasures, man’s cult of beauty.
Degenerates are not always criminals, prostitutes, anarchists and pronounced lunatics; they are often authors and artists
As an artist, my concern is toward the synthesizing of all the visual elements at my disposal - at the exclusion of none.
I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.
It is great to have your own label; you can cultivate your own artists I've worked with pretty much everyone I wanted to.
I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school. It's what you learn, what you think. That's all that counts.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
An artist should make concessions to the listener. That is why Bruckner dedicated one of his symphonies to the Good Lord.
I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.
We have to give our opinion, we have to say something, or we are a part of it. As an artist I am forced to say something.
My mom is a painter and photographer and my grandfather was an artist, so I've always been surrounded by creative people.
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.
Artists erase reality to a greater or lesser extent, and substitute their own reality - created by their brains, instead.
I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
It's interesting to see the world's fascination with a troubled artist. The artists sure wouldn't share their enthusiasm.
I'm not very prolific. I'm not good at sitting down as an artist and saying 'Okay, I need to put in my four hours today.'
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'
An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.
I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.
Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.
It has always been the artist who realizes that the future is the present and uses his work to prepare the grounds for it
I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
The best picture I got was Bianca Jagger whispering in Mick's ear. I caught them telling a secret, which is sort of rude.
Artists themselves are neurotic and fearful people, and you can look at their work and figure out what they're scared of.
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.
I think all artists secretly hope their kids might do something safer and straitlaced: maybe my daughter 'll be a banker.
I have no interest in artists who are purely affirmative, who've made a commercialized fetish of the culture's stupidity.
Disease, insanity, and death were the angels that attended my cradle, and since then have followed me throughout my life.
I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim Crouch.
I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
I'm not just going to accept something because it's a lot of money. I'm an artist; content is incredibly important to me.
When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with.
In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.
There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.