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In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.
I'm developed as an artist to accept the fact there are different points of view, but I believe in what I do and I have to stay with that.
People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.
Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.
Being a recording artist and having thousands of people listening to your music and singing your songs, and paying for it? It feels great!
I had gone to Europe . . . to reach for a place as a serious artist, but I never doubted that I must return. I was - and am - an American.
Only the mature artist who works from a model is capable of seeing the body for itself, only he has the opportunity for prolonged viewing.
That's the artist's job, really: continually setting yourself free, and giving yourself new options and new ways of thinking about things.
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
Movements are overrated and invented by the press. Ask any artist if they feel or felt part of a movement - the good ones will all say no.
As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.
I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.
The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.
I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.
It is imperative that the artist reveal through the medium in which he is happiest, what he sees, thinks and feels about his surroundings.
All accidents and experiments, and discoveries, are what my work is about. The problem that I have as an artist is being way too critical.
I just appreciate what Andre 3000 has done musically - just the bravery. I think Andre 3000 may be one of the bravest artists in rap music.
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind.
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism.
I used to think it was possible for an artist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory.
The tricky thing about being a writer, or about being any kind of artist, is that in addition to making art you also have to make a living.
I'm Larry Sanders. I'm a person. I'm a father. I'm an artist. I'm a writer. I'm a painter. I'm a musician. And sometimes I play basketball.
Artists are like messengers. A song is authored by you, but its interpretation is owned by other people. And you have no control over that.
Let it be said that the makeup artist at '90210' made me look better for the fake red carpet than I've ever looked on an actual red carpet.
If you don't think a film looks good then that is just a reflection of how bad the artist was that was using the paint that is really good.
Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists.
I'm looking for a deal from one of you TV networks to give Snoop Dogg his own hood TV show where I can find America's hottest hood artists.
I think it's shameful when you sell out. It depends what kind of artist you wanna be, but I don't want my name anywhere near another brand.
You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet.
'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from scratch.
Not only Freud but artists and writers were also interested in the unconscious. It was medicine that made the first steps toward modernity.
What we have as artists is the immortalization opportunity that others don't have, because our work is lasting; it's there forever to view.
In earlier times artists liked to show what was actually visible... nowadays we are concerned with reality, rather than the merely visible.
Of course, you have to have a good reputation, especially as an artist, as a musician, so that other musicians would like to play with you.
Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.
I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.
Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
I am not a liberal, not a conservative, not a believer in gradual progress, not a monk. I should like to be a free artist and nothing more.
Every artist is different - I work with a lot of artists from the ground up because it's really amazing to watch projects go from Minute 1.
A king or a prince becomes by accident a part of history. A poet or an artist becomes by nature and necessity a part of universal humanity.
When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker.