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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.
The important man is not the artist, but the businessman who, in the marketplace and on the battlefield, holds the reins in his hands.
An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.
But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
I want to be real. I want to be a real person. That's what an artist is. An artist has to be honest. Without honesty, there's nothing.
If he's a true symphony artist, he knows better than that because he knows that the only truly creative musician is the jazz musician.
Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody.
By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
I see myself as a hip-hop artist, but I never wanted to make music for a specifically white audience. Thats not what I grew up around.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
The artist has to be something like a whale swimming with his mouth wide open, absorbing everything until he has what he really needs.
I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.
The artist must imitate that which is within the thing, that which is active through form and figure, and discourses to us by symbols.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.
... unless the actor is able to discourse most eloquently without opening his lips, he lacks the prime essential of a finished artist.
I have a lot of different influences. Everything from Maroon 5, Gwen Stefani, The Clash, Kanye West - just a lot of different artists.
I think artists are entitled to their songs. I'm very vocal and I understand that not everybody's gonna like me; it's not for everyone.
A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.
The only artist who does not deserve respect is the one who works to please the public, for commercial success or for official success.
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.
Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work.
Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples of the absolute best.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
Mustard believes in me so much. It's good to have a mentor that's been through it. Even though he's a producer, he's been a new artist.
As an artist your trajectory just has to keep going up. the thing that subverts your next body of work is the work you've taken before.
For an artist to do creative work, he needs at once physical health and some physiomental ill health. He needs both serenity and gloom.
Many days you will want to give up because of rejections and failures. Passion to be an artist will help you prevail where others fail.
Gut level is a good level to deal with life, and for me, I have to say that Buddhism makes sense for me because it's how I'm an artist.
Stalin said artists are the engineers of human souls. I wanted to show what happens to the soul when the engineers get through with it.
I'm a well rounded artist and I love to make music and create and be different. Hopefully I get the opportunity to show the world that.
That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.
There's so much going on today. I continually hear, sometimes from artists, that everything's done. It's been done. I fail to see that.
It is not enough that the artist should be well prepared for the public. The public must be well prepared for what it is going to hear.
To call yourself a Chinese artist or woman artist or African artist reflects a certain kind of condition. To me, that is not necessary.
I think working with artists is incredibly important for everybody in the world, but also, it is a way of seeing the world differently.
if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
The artist must yield himself to his own inspiraton, and if he has a true talent, no one knows and feels better than he what suits him.
Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.
I think that one of the qualifications of artists should be a vow of celibacy. They should be confined to ruining only their own lives.
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
It's harder to make money when you're not a machine in a massive apparatus designed only to make money, but artists will figure it out.