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Part of being an artist is being able to write about the world you live in and the times that you've been a part of.
The first song I ever had recorded by another artist was a song called 'Surefire Feeling' by Jake Owen.
It might seem difficult to separate my artist and my writing career, but for me, it's just music.
When I got into high school, my favorite artist was definitely Janet Jackson.
When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.
I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.
An artist looks at a juice bottle, an egg carton, or a newspaper and sees something valuable in them.
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.
I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.
The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.
You know, Simon he's an artist representative, but Randy and Paula actually were in the industry as artists so they had, you know, the information that they offered to us from their aspect.
What is not cool is if we have a problem with an artist or if an artist has a problem with us, come to us directly. Talk to us. Don't start a Twitter war and all that kind of stuff. That's silly.
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.
I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev.
I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.
I thought I would be a visual artist when I was growing up, so I'm always up for a bit of experimentation.
My father came from a Quaker family. His father was a professional artist who did portraits - very traditional, a lot of religious subjects.
I've had a nice career. I'm no David Bowie or Bruce Springsteen out there. I'm not an icon. I'm just a working artist.
'Honey' was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.
I am an artist through to my marrow, which might be a curse and not necessarily a good thing.
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
The fact that we were encouraged to follow our conscience and not to follow the crowds - that's something I really miss. On the other hand, there were things that drove me nuts in the '60s. There was an aspect of the hippie movement that everyone is an artist, which is lethal.
My taste comes from when I was 12 years old and saw Genesis or Laurie Anderson or some performance artist who had put paint on himself. I've seen a lot of theater, but that's not what woke up my taste to become a director; nontheatrical things were much more theatrical than the theater I was seeing.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.
The whole thrust of modern art, as far as I understand it, is expanding the role of the artist as a kind of esthetician, someone who actually spends his time, is trained in a way to deal with qualities.
When I met Johnny Cash, I didn't know what to ask: where were you born, who was your favorite recording artist, what's your favorite color - I didn't know.
If you got every single artist in the world in one room, and you put Miles on one side and Prince on the other side, those are the two people that everybody would be trying to get a glimpse of. And Michael Jackson would be the other one.
When I was a young artist, and I would go look at other artists' career retrospectives, and I was often disappointed with the lack of story line... What was missing to me was the story of where the artist came from and how they got to where they were.
The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.
I think the problem with the art market and the art scene is that it is its own beast. It thrives and breathes and defecates independently of the artist.
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
Rock & roll fan that I am, Thelonious Monk is probably my favorite musical artist.
Over the years, I've realized that I have as much in common with the performance artist, the standup comedian, the screenwriter, as I do with the theologian. I'm in an odd world where I make things and share them with people.
I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation.
I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.
The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There is no individuality about modern guns. One is exactly like another.
Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
With rare exceptions, I respond most to painting that cuts across grain rather than following it. I think the artist here can get in touch with that grain rather than simply feel its flow. And he really can't cut right across it anyway.
Being an artist, being an actor, it's about telling stories that could heal, that could open up discussion that could make the community better.
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
From the age of six I wanted to be an artist. At that point I meant a painter, but it turned out what I really meant was I was someone who was very interested in watching the world and making copies of it.
When you are a commercial music artist, your music depends on your popularity.
I've been able to do a lot of cool things. That's always the dream for any artist.
I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the moment I say them.
My name is Rene Angelil, throat cancer survivor, artist manager, and I am also known as Celine Dion's husband.
I would hardly call myself an artist in that sense; I doodle, I draw, I'm not a trained artist, I couldn't sit down and do an accurate portrait of anyone.
When you give an artist a canvas, you shouldn't tell him exactly how much paint to put on it, or exactly how sharp the images should be. You should let the artist get going.
Every artist can actually say that, that the overseas community appreciates the culture of hip-hop more, really, rather than over here. So it's fun to perform there.
I like Kendrick as an artist. He's witty and he's smart when he's spitting in his lyrics. And he's crafty.
If a hip-hop artist can get on stage and entertain an arena full of 30,000 people and keep their attention for 45 minutes, imagine that on a big screen.
I'm an artist, not a rapper... so my musical genres and library is way beyond the normal rapper.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
I think they want to keep it separate, but I've never been a crossover artist for some reason.
I had no idea that I could sustain a career as an artist. But, I loved music and wanted to be in the music business.
I always felt, as a listener at a show, that when there was too much banter between the artist and the audience that it detracted from the show. I more enjoyed shows where the guys came out and they just played.
From the beginning, I always felt artistically inclined. I always knew I wanted to be an artist of some sort, even if I didn't know what an artist was. I clung to the arts. I always watched 'High School Musical' and those type of things.
A lot of people like structure, so there's definitely a risk with being an artist that a lot of people aren't really willing to take.
I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.
As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.
I say that I suffer from what Rosalind Krauss was calling the post-medium condition, where an artist essentially employs several mediums in order to bring to life whatever specific ideas that they have. For me it's always been that way.
As a creative, as an artist, I'm just excited when people want my stuff, and want to experience it.
You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
I guess I had a suspicion of it my entire life without knowing exactly what it was - knowing that there was something different about me, which I attributed to being an artist. At 11 or 12 I started sort of clarifying for myself. It took a while.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
My father was an artist. When life was harder and he couldn't get jobs, he painted houses, but he was artistic. When I went to see his work, it was special. Somewhere along the line, I felt I was special. I didn't know why.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Without no disrespect to any artist, there's a lot of degrading music out there as far as degrading the culture and degrading society as well. That's individuals that choose to make that kind of music.
I've blown myself up as a revolutionary and conscious artist. As a philanthropist and a performer.
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