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Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
The artist's duty to himself is a combination of immense responsibility and immense irresponsibility. I think those two interlock.
If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.
The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.
Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.
Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.
People ask me all the time, ALL the time, they say the same exact thing. They say, 'Bo, you're an artist... how do we fix Africa?'
There are people who help you in life. I've been given a helping hand, and that's why I feel it's my duty to help younger artists.
I loved being a child. If I do have a talent, it's not so much being an artist, but it's being able to remember back to that time.
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.
The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
People are getting record deals and they can barely sing. We have these new terms for artists that can dance, but they can't sing.
The feeble-minded, the neurotic, the criminal, perhaps, also, the artist, have unpredictability and perverted innocence in common.
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.
I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic.
I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.
An artist, to achieve anything in art, has to finally do the thing that nobody else wants to do and nobody else has thought to do.
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.
There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.
Any artist must expect to work amid the total, rational indifference of everybody else to their work, for years, perhaps for life.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.
Yeah, the industry has always been both the enemy and the best friend of the artist. They need each other. That's the bottom line.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade
I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.
Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.
I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.
When you are able to make a living with your job as an artist, that means you have an audience and you have to thank this audience.
People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping.
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration.
As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.
An artist doesn't necesetharily have to get acclaim from the outside. Maybe it is much better if he can get validation from within.
There are artists, true performers that have come before me who have been a big inspiration to me. I hope I do the same for others.
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
Every authentic artist is engaged in this creating of the conscience of the race, even though he or she may be unaware of the fact.
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
Failure would only be if you had somewhere stopped growing. As far as I can see the whole duty of the artist is to keep on growing.
I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.
You can think of a painter as a trio - the artist, his talent and his muse, the last two always on the lookout for a new brush man.
Theres a lot of blowhards in the political process, you know, a lot of hot-air artists, people who have got something fancy to say.