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I think it's artist's role to give and to receive and the people to give it, hear it, vibe on it, and give it back around again.
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
The only way I've been able to survive the betrayal of lovers, family members, and society is to be able to create as an artist.
I am far less interested in serving as a change agent than in functioning as a prose artist, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.
All artists are self-sacrificing human beings, and to become an artist is nothing but to devote oneself to the subterranean gods.
I'm a filmmaker. I'm an artist. I've chosen to work in history the way someone might choose to work in still lifes or landscapes.
To be quite blunt, I make pictures for money, to pay the rent.There are some great artists in the business. I am not one of them.
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
I’ve been a con artist since I was 16 and trying to get my dad to buy me a car. I never succeeded, but I learnt a lot of tactics.
Artists usually don't make all that much money, and they often keep their artistic hobby despite the money rather than due to it.
As an artist, you're very sensitive about your art. And you feel like, 'Am I doing the right thing? Am I making the right music?'
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
The great fear I've had to overcome is the fear of failure. You have to be willing to be afraid, if you're going to be an artist.
Being a songwriter requires versatility while being an artist requires you to create a cohesive body of work. I truly enjoy both.
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
I grew up listening to Tupac, Biggie and other hip hop artists in the 90s. To this day, their music is still some of my favorite.
As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
I believe that a truly valuable artist must be an artist who realizes the impossibility of his task -and then continues to do it.
My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.
[My] goal as an artist is to create increasingly complex images with greater and greater clarity of form and intensity of vision.
As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.
I've had to relearn how I work with people so that if and when I do avoid different things I don't send any messages in doing so.
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.
You learn from doing and you learn from experiencing what it feels like to be present and lost in the moment with another artist.
The only happy artist is a dead artist, because only then you can't change. After I die, I'll probably come back as a paintbrush.
More and more, I think about the role of the arts, and as an artist, I think that it's important that I share the love and peace.
So it's like the underground world no longer exists economically cause they're not giving money back to their supporting artists.
I wrote my first rhymes around 8th grade. After serving a year in juvenile detention, I decided to pursue my career as an artist.
I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to the creative life of an artist.
If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.
The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.
I'm peripheral in Colab's history because others were involved in media, filmmaking, and music, and I was always a studio artist.
Artists speak to a different part of us, bypassing the cloudy filter of reason and the fears and prejudices of the habitual mind.
The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.
The artist must try to raise the level of taste of the masses, not debase himself to the level of unformed and impoverished taste.
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
I come from a family of lawyers. I was expected to be a professional of some sort, not an artist. I was never uplifted for my art.
I think it's really important as an artist not to be drawn to the haters, because there are so many people who are nice and quiet.
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.
In comics, collaboration saves your life. How well you can work with an artist, a colorist, a letterer, is how good your comic is.
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.