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The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.
I have found, and most artists are probably this way, that [when] you're working on some kind of idea, the idea makes demands.
Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.
The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.
I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.
Whoever said that artists shouldn't pay attention to their business was probably someone w/their hand in some artist's pocket.
When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.
In 1996, after 29 years as an artist for Marvel Comics, I got fired - 56 years old, two children still in college, and no job.
An artist... must actively caress wonder: for fascination, like the desire to play, can be eradicated by the rigors of living.
As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.
Mazur was a remarkable artist. During our time in Rome we became friends. I would often perform my works for him at the piano.
If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!
Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.
the unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth.
If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
What artists have accomplished is realizing there's only a small amount of stuff that's important and then seeing what it was.
Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out.
Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.
Abstraction returned as soon as artists tried to come to closer grips with reality than naturalistic representation permitted.
I am an artist no matter what I do. I live for creativity. I think everyone should. It is the antithesis of being destructive.
I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.
When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded; The King dropped a tear in the Queen's ear, And all his pictures faded.
Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures
Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He's so knowledgeable.
I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.
To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist.
All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike.
I really try towork with an artist who is trying to create a long legacy of quality rather than trying to jump aboard a trend.
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it's just about your drive and your dream.
A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.
The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death
A highly promising new artist and I look forward to seeing Natalie McCool perform at major festivals and concerts in the future
I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.
An artist is generally expected to stick to one motif, one persona. People get used to seeing someone put down a certain thing.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.
I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
I hate working with artists who don't have something to say or when they have something that sounds cool but isn't really them.
Form is sometimes considered a mere spice added by the artist to the representation of objects in order to make it pleasurable.
Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last.
I'm never happier than when I'm being creative, whether that's with Coldplay or other artists. I just love being in the studio.
As artists, sometimes our work is chaotic; we don't easily communicate our needs to other people in a way that they understand.
What I am is a father, a grandfather, a great grandfather, and an artist. I am a man who loves his people and wants to go home.