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I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
I think it's harder to make a classic now, not because of what people say, but because artists now are so concerned with what people say.
I don't really have a favorite artist - I mean, I really love Drake - but it depends on my mood. I like anything that makes me feel good.
As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.
There's nothing shocking inherently about that, given that so much of the way that artists are taught is by copying old master paintings.
I've also been writing for other artists, producing other artists, doing some country stuff. Those lyrics I tend to leave more universal.
I know as a fan of music I want my favorite artists to give me as much content and music as possible , so that is what I am trying to do.
An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
I believe that my clothes can give people a better image of themselves - that it can increase their feelings of confidence and happiness.
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what you're doing. If you're not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners.
Many artists stick to making and hire a manager to focus on their business. Artists that build websites and mobile apps can do that, too.
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements.
It's no small irony that the government inevitably and invariably ends up promoting precisely that which they would most like to repress.
I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.
There are so few barriers to working with artists because the contract is brief and straightforward, it allows us to just move instantly.
My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.
It's really empowering when, as an artist, you can visualize something and then have the final product turn out the way you wanted it to.
You don't see artists sitting around a lot, talking about ideology. They find out what they believe, and what they're doing, by doing it.
We see new male artists have their first single reach No. 1 on the charts, but it generally takes a female a lot longer to build momentum.
Everyone is here on earth as an artist; to tell his particular story or sing her irreplaceable song; to leave a unique creative signature.
Our present-day artists do not transform, they deform. That gives pleasure to nobody. It changes everything, therefore it changes nothing.
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
I like collaborating, but I felt I should do my first single by myself so people don't think I'm leaning on other artists to be a success.
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present.
My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.
Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now.
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.
It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.
I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.
There were times in my career when I would try to write songs like Bob Dylan... Artists get hooked up in that. To be a follower, you lose.
Everyone always says I'm a rapper, and that I'm exactly like Peaches and M.I.A. People just take any female artist and compare me to them.
I think what we (as a society) need from artists of all kinds is courage, a willingness to explore, and a really big sense of possibility.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
As an artist, I don't care about where we are in the charts and all that. The important thing to me is to connect with a creative project.
Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.
Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.
I mean, I’m an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.
If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your praises and applaud your artistry.
I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.
I think artists like Justin Bieber really opened up a door for younger artists to be respected in the industry. I really like what he did.
Perceptions are portraits, not photographs, and their form reveals the artist’s hand every bit as much as it reflects the things portrayed
Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.
There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.
When I started working for Rolling Stone, I became very interested in journalism and thought maybe that's what I was doing, but it wasn't.
The reading eye must do the work to make them live, and so it did, again and again, never the same life twice, as the artist had intended.