Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.
I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.
I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.
I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.
I have this weird thing where all the artists that I find myself engaging with the most are the ones that I have a bone to pick with.
A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!
I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.
I always want to be growing in my craft. Any artist should - whether you paint, whether you do music or film - always grow and study.
The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.
Artists are messengers whose responsibility is to unite the world -- a faith that will lead not to destruction but to transformation.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
Most artists don't know a hit. You can say I want this one to be a hit but it never become that way. The public decides that for you.
Women in drudgery knew They must be one of four: Whores, artists, saints, and wives. There are composite lives that women always live
Drawing is the most inalienable medium. It is private; it practically doesn't have an audience in mind, just the artist's expression.
The aim of the historian, like that of the artist, is to enlarge our picture of the world, to give us a new way of looking at things.
I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life - as an artist and as a person - has definitely got me smarter and wiser.
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
There's this privileged position of being an artist where you can do things on a more experimental nature simply to see what happens.
Whenever we dig down into the achievements of a creative artist, we invariably trace them to the beginning of all beginnings: labour.
The artist's conception of his art or the scientist's of his science is usually as great as his conception of his own worth is small.
People still kind of think of me as like a folk artist, but on the first record, I truly was deferring to other people to produce me.
When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.
The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are the hardest critics.
Maybe Radiohead and R.E.M. Even a group like the National - artists who have crossed over without compromising. It's a special thing.
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
An artist is an entertainer, number one - a storyteller who takes people someplace, who gives them what they didn't know they wanted.
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
Being a sensitive empath is a beautiful thing as an artist, and it fosters a deep burning curiosity about why we do the things we do.
I am a person before I am anything else. I never say I am a writer. I never say I am an artist...I am a person who does those things.
You've got major artists releasing albums on their own and eschewing the major system. I think that breeds excitement and creativity.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.
I really believe that I am the first and only artist to throw not just the 'subject' out of my paintings, but every 'object' as well.
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
Hurray for criticism, if it means that an artist's voice is heard. Let the wise artist invite criticism and survive it when it comes.
With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption.
The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.
A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.
And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.
When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.
As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.
Our old experiences, memories and fears guide us down the present path. It's not so much that you are the artist; you are the conduit.
All our feelings, like the artist's paints and brush, are ways of communicating and sharing something meaningful from us to the world.
The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality. I do not see the artist as a person who sits at a distance and evaluates.
One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That's what I wished someone would've done for me.