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All were artists, playing foolish, having fights and making love as if the rest of the world had no racial problems whatsoever.
I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.
Being a martial artist for many years, it has become a bit of an obsession of mine to bring that part of my life to the screen.
Lets just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
I think it might be nice if there was a Cosimo de' Medici around today, offering commissions to the poor, but talented artists.
There was a long time where I was an "artist" in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
I always have a very good relationship with galleries, a lot of galleries and artists, so I don't want any conflict situations.
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
I had tried to come up with a superhero comic, but it didn't work 'cause I wasn't a superhero artist, and I left it unfinished.
One of the most difficult things for any artist to do is create a world that looks both completely alien yet real and possible.
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.
Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.
We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"
Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.
It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
As artists, we do the work that we do. Receiving an award or not receiving an award in no way diminishes one's talent or value.
When you come from nowhere, I am fully aware of the fact that people have to compare you to other artists to kind of place you.
The thing that's interesting as you get older as an artist is that the biggest challenge seems to be: how do you stay relevant?
I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.
With Metro Station, there were too many people trying to control us. That's not the thing you should do with an artist, I think.
Many artists who sign deals in the US and UK get the benefit of worldwide promotion and have a better shot at breaking globally.
When did the word 'temperament' come into fashion with us? Perhaps it came in when we discovered that artists were human beings.
I think that for every artist, it's very important to have an output and to feel very strongly about the music you're producing.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
An artist who is too self-centered is liable to exhibit faults he abhors: carelessness, callousness, and even downright cruelty.
Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.
History speaks to artists. It changes the artist's thinking and is constantly reshaping it into different and unexpected images.
Diamanda Galás, the avant-weird performance artist... 'The devil's wife,' someone calls her. Faith No More loves Diamanda Galás.
I'm connecting and that's really what any artist wants at the end of the day which is to connect with their fans and supporters.
Be an artist of consciousness. Your picture of reality is your most important creation. Make it powerfully profoundly beautiful.
Look at someone like Kanye West - ego is the death of a lot of art. To believe in yourself that much is to stop being an artist.
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.
I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman it amazes me still.
And every true artist is the salvation of every other. But only artists produce for each other the world that is fit to live in.
You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.
It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.
Here, on the river's verge, I could be busy for months without changing my place, simply leaning a little more to right or left.
Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?
I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.
I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.
I've seen rock stars agonize over the fact that another artist has far more Facebook 'likes' and Twitter followers than they do.
Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences.
It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.
The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.
I think carrying moral baggage is very dangerous for an artist. If you have a duty, it's to be true and not cover up the cracks.
'Death Of A Salesman,' 'Streetcar Named Desire,' these are the things that, when I was growing up, made me want to be an artist.
The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may.