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I want to be remembered as an artist who was really passionate about his work. And as an inspiration. I do what I do to inspire people.
I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.
I relied mainly on other artists, who I think are smarter than critics, any critics or curators or anybody like that. They really know.
The artist has to be exactly the opposite [of people singing the song, I've gotta be Me,] and transcend himself as he makes judgements.
There are so many people I look up to and I try to watch some sort of video or interview every day, with an artist who does inspire me.
I feel that my job, as an artist, is to disturb the peace. And to disturb it intellectually, linguistically, politically and literally.
Every great and original writer, in proportion as he is great and original, must himself create the taste by which he is to be relished.
In my opinion, my business runs better when my family is a part of it, and I get to see my wife and kids; that makes me a better artist.
The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.
If I have a session with an artist who I've never worked with before, they don't have to meet my parents, you know? Unless they want to.
Life is like Avant Garde. It will make you uncomfortable, and leave the room. But always remember to come back and watch the artist bow.
There are photographs that I don’t take now, that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations.
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.
I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.
I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
I've sort of decided that I can settle for being just the artist, arranger, writer and part-time engineer. That seems like enough to do.
I realized... that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing.
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
I have traveled with Jessy Dixon for the past several years and never have I been with an artists with more heart. He is the real thing.
When the individuality of the artist begins to express itself, what the artist gains in the way of liberty he loses in the way of order.
The internet has a way of mainstreaming everything. Any artist, any musician, any sexual kink, any political view point, it's all there.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
There's a lot of artists whose contracts are written in such a way that they do not get paid for what's happening on streaming services.
Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.
I work with an amazing team - I have a stylist and a hairdresser and make-up artist who are always wondering what I am going to do next!
I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was through doing the paintings.
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts.
One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another’s ambitiousness.
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music...I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.
I would like to be known as an artist. Whether that be music, acting, sketching, cooking, whatever. Im interested in all of those things.
I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant.
Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
I guess I am ruthless too because that's what makes a great artist. But I also respect people, I don't go around stepping on their heads.
I think every artist should follow their vision, their hearts is what they need to reveal, not something that society is looking out for.
My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain.
I work with deadlines. It is terrible to be an artist where you are just producing work and nobody gives a damn. Nobody wants to show it.
Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.
I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.
Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.
I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a demeaning kind of thing.