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The great artist is conscious of the talent and power he possesses otherwise he would not see his faults and so would not be able to improve.
The great artists represent you. The great products represent you. They don't tell you who you are. But with them, you require less verbiage.
You can't paint pictures of love. You can only imagine them. So I suppose I don't need a painting by another artist. I have enough of my own.
You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need any special equipment - that's the beauty of it.
When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."
An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.
Being a black artist, the first thing people want to talk about is your blackness, the importance of your blackness, and your black presence.
It wasn't that I wanted to be an artist. But when I took my first drawing class with the painter Doug Ohlson, I could never finish a drawing.
Anybody who is born in Santa Rosa must turn out to be either an artist or a poet, for the spirit of the hills gets into your blood out there.
Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods.
The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.
Autism doesn't have to define a person. Artists with autism are like anyone else: They define themselves through hard work and individuality.
Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable.
The revolutionary artist does not only focus on the negative aspects of capitalist lives, but also creates visions of a revolutionary future.
When the artist observes nature... it is as if nature communicated, through the sensitivity of the artist at that moment, one of its secrets.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.
It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.
Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.
I'm known as a light artist. But rather than be someone who depicted light, or painted light in some way, I wanted to have the work be light.
There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.?
Some artists want your money so they can buy Range Rovers and diamond bracelets, but I don't care about that kind of stuff. I want your soul.
You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.
I paint because this is what I love to do. I have been painting since I was a kid and my dream was to become a well known professional artist
Every kid wants to reach their goals in life and be the best. During my Bruce Lee phase, I wanted to be the best martial artist in the world.
Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man.
I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.
I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.
Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.
Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.
I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there.
I've had my bubblegum years and I did them well. Now it's time to come back as the woman, artist, and musician that I am without apologizing.
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
I am a serious artist in my own right, in the sense that I've spent my entire life being an artist and trying to be an artist and making work.
There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.
I'm never too nervous about releasing music. I like to see what the people think because it helps me make myself better as an artist for them.
It used to be that youd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership.
I always say that my artist statement is to not be afraid to talk about the messiness - the unpleasant feelings and happenings around my life.
From 20 years of experience hiring artists out of the schools, I know-they get worse every year. They're absolutely ridiculously retarded now.
I'm not a natural comedian, as an artist. I studied comedy growing up. I would watch Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence, all day.
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
It's not what you do, it's the way you do it that makes you an artist. Whatever you do do it with all your heart. Be what you are Be creative!
The only way artists can do things is to do it for themselves. Trying to second guess what the public wants or likes is kind of a fool's game.
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.
As an independent artist, there can be nothing better than the fact that your song will be played and heard in different corners of the world.