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I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.
Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
The artist performs only one part of the creative process. The onlooker completes it, and it is the onlooker who has the last word.
My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.
I'm so proud that my offspring became a musician. I'm full of awe that we are able to have a whole family live the life of artists.
I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
The orb came about because I wanted to do this kitsch sweater for Prince Charles when he went hunting and fishing with his kilt on.
Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?
Remember He is the artist and you are the picture. You can’t see it, you can't see your true self. So quietly submit to be painted.
The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.
Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist
To accomplish artistic work, of any individual worth, nature must be seen through the medium of the artist's intellectual emotions.
As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
Artists are perceptive, but they choose to write songs or make movies or paint pictures rather than simply keeping private diaries.
Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.
Being called a conscious rapper is quite a compliment. It's a great thing to be. But as an artist, my nature is to not be in a box.
Does madness bring creativity? Or does creativity cause madness? Can an artist create without the ups so high and the downs so low?
I want a performance style that's more cerebral and emotional than physical. I want to be a creative artist, not a whirling dervish.
Music tells you about the artist and what they were thinking about at the time, because the person has to think about it to sing it.
Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see
I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.
Let's be honest. We don't take rap serious the way other cultures take rock-n-roll, they take country. They artists are being loved.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not like follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it.
I want to be role model for people to be like, 'I don't need a major label to be a successful artist and to have a successful song.'
I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life.
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.
Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.
I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.
Everybody wants freedom. You don't want to be shackled, especially as an artist. Nobody wants to be shackled, at the end of the day.
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.
Fashion has also been a great outlet, and I'd like to do more fashion photography in the future. I also photograph a lot of artists.
I have to say, that's pretty typical for artists, kind of embarrassingly typical for artists that everything is all about selection.
Chaos in nature is immediately challenging and forces a good artist to impose some type of order on his or her perception of a site.
You don't get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can't.
I speak with the Eternal through the instrument of nature, through the world's history: I read the soul of the artist in his Apollo.