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One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.
The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.
Lady Gaga is the present and the future. She is the most revolutionary and inspirational artist. She is fearless and daring.
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
Artists should be self-aware of their work and their potential places in people's lives and make their decisions accordingly.
A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.
I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.
Me being able to be acting and doing other things has opened me as an artist, and I think even more from a visual standpoint.
Throughout history, the technology always comes first. It's just technology for a while, until the day we artists inherit it.
The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.
Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.
An artist, in my understanding of the word, should side with the people against the Emperor that oppresses his or her people.
I'd never compare myself to Freddie Mercury because I look up to him far too much. As an artist, not necessarily as a person.
Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.
Can that which has cost the artist days, weeks, months and even years of reflection be understood in a flash by a dilettante?
The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.
As an artist you have a choice. You can add more confusion and darkness to the world or you can shine a light, make a beauty.
I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist.
As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.
One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a flirt's belt.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Color helps to express light, not the physical phenomenon, but the only light that really exists, that in the artist's brain.
Creativity is not enough... the skill of the true artist is to show the real in the light of the ideal and so transfigure it.
For the life of me, I'll never understand how you can be an artist but not want people to understand who you are as a person.
Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.
I think you always, as an artist, feel like you would like to be more and more specific about your intent and your interests.
No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
At the end of the day, I don't know what makes any artist say what he says. Everyone has a reason for whatever it is they do.
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
I know my sound, and I have to be true to who I am as an artist, even though I want be real cool, and make really cool music.
All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.
The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
What the artist attempts to do is to try and tell a story. Attempting to give physical expression to a story that's internal.
That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.
I am a commercial artist because I paint to earn a living. We who earn money from what we produce are all commercial artists.
That is the artist's job: take mineral rock from dark silent earth, transform it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
Somehow, the French got this idea of the starving artist. Very romantic, except it's not so romantic for the starving artist.
I feel like all the artists that I really love, they've had a strong contingent of people who really hate their work as well.
One is a criminal to some people and an artist to others. I can understand that. In a legal sense, I am a convicted criminal.
With a painter's temperament, all that's needed are the means of expression sufficient to be intelligible to the wide public.
I've never been a representational artist at all. Most artists have been representational. That's when you discover yourself.
It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain.
A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.