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The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer.
Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me.
When we think of Leonardo da Vinci, the last thing that comes to mind is the nationality of the artist. The great masters belong to the world.
I would just encourage any artist to stay focused, of course keep God first, and just keep working hard. Try to outwork those who you idolize.
When an artist works today or whenever, it's not about creating immortal masterpieces, because that's the one thing we don't decide ourselves.
Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.
The artist's interest cannot be restricted to a single field; he must seek the highest perception of everything, of the whole and its details.
I remember growing up, saying you’re an artist it sounds pretentious but now it’s one of the only dignified things that you can call yourself.
My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything.
There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.
Artists should not look to the left or the right. Art should be strong and nonconformist - and most importantly, art should always be personal.
When you are an artist you can turn your hand to anything, in any style. Once you have the tools then all the artforms are the same in the end.
We find Japan a little more difficult to understand because it has proven its 20th century prowess though the ancient traditions still persist.
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
As someone who has been asked to ask David Lynch what his movies mean for 25 years, I'm very careful about asking artists what their art means.
I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
My wife was a make-up artist, and she's a total product junkie. Our bathroom is packed full of lotions and potions so I end up trying them out.
My parents are artists, so I grew up with my mom having bonfires, seven guitars, and talented musicians and artists around like Jack Hirschman.
Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.
'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.
I consider it a great honour that my movie Drive inspired so many wonderful artists to come together and create one ultra-cool glam experience.
Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
Let it not be assumed that the artist is so smug as to dislike true criticism. No sincere artist was ever completely satisfied with his labour.
We makeup artists are a unique bunch of people; we don't have the classic brain, the classic training, but we're creative, so we figure it out.
There are very few of us, who reach my advanced age, who are still working in the business, as writers. As artists, people can hang out longer.
Pro-Tip: Ask for one clear action per panel. Don't ask your artist to do two, three, or more things in a shot. You want those? Add more panels.
A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
Blacks own so little of the music business, it's pathetic. But I see that changing soon. Black artists, black businessmen and women will unite.
As an actor - like an artist - you have to ask, "Why do I choose a certain moment to play something a certain way?" It's organic to who we are.
I was very disenchanted in the industry for a long time before I met GaGa. Everyone wanted a "Single Ladies" for their artist, or a Puffy move.
I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.
I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing something?" That hurts me.
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
Value gives the artist the means of showing subtle changes in a form's surface-state, and it helps clarify the relative distance between forms.
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.
If you're any kind of artist, you make a miraculous journey, and you come back and make some statements in shapes and colors of where you were.
The best job that was ever offered to me was to become a landlord in a brothel. In my opinion it's the perfect milieu for an artist to work in.
I think a lot of artists no longer want to participate in or be associated with narrative because of its corruptedness in contemporary culture.
Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.
If I were an opera singer, I"d have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at.
Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.
When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.