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Rabindranath Tagore Jayanti 2026
It's my responsibility as an artist and public figure to put the right frequency out there.
I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
I'm not an artist that strays away from my fans. Nah, everybody is open to come and talk to me respectfully and I'm going to give them the same respect.
Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn't seem like something I was talented enough to do full time. So I kind of buried that dream.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.
The basic principle I have is that what is most Korean is what is the most international. I don't want to come here and act like I'm an American. I want to showcase the dynamic potential Korea has, and I want to prove that as an artist.
If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.
Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.
Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new.
The hook is a word or an idea spoken by one character which gives the next character something to hook onto when he responds or, like a trapeze artist, gives him something to swing from on his way to another point of view.
I have been a politically conscious citizen. I've been an artist, a reader, and have been chiselled by that.
I don't want to be an artist; I don't really want to sing - though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time.
Finally, I've reached a place where if I'm working with an artist, they allow me to just do whatever I feel. Growing up, it was like, 'We want another 'Peaches and Cream.' Then you realise... why would you want a 2001 Mercedes Benz when I'm making 2018 Benzes?
I'm like this ghost - you look around, and all you see is the artist. But if you look at the credits, it's still Poo Bear.
If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.
The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
I paint landscapes, figuratives. I painted all my life. In fact, I started as a commercial artist.
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.
How does an artist know when the line that he just painted is good or not good? That's the catch. De Kooning was the greatest of my contemporaries in art, and he knew when he'd done a good line. When he didn't, he threw it away. I wish I'd thrown away some of mine.
When you get to know an artist, you find out the things that have peeved them over the years, and it's generally the stuff that has to do with somebody not wanting to do things their way in the studio.
I think a businessman can be an artist just as much as a writer or a sculptor, so I'm real proud of what the company has become.
You need pencil miles to be a great artist, animator, or filmmaker, and the sooner you start making mistakes, the quicker you learn.
I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.
As a kid I quite fancied the romantic, Bohemian idea of being an artist. I expect I thought I could escape from the difficulties of maths and spelling. Maybe I thought I would avoid the judgement of the establishment.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.
I was a painter before I was a writer, so I was always a visual artist. And my writing, to me, was always visual.
An artist is only an exemplary person if you can see in his works how life goes.
I think another thing is that we don't really want exclusivity. We accept that it is in the artist's interest to be on sale in every place where they sell music.
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
An artist who goes around proclaiming that the art he's making is art is probably making a serious mistake. And that's one mistake I try not to make.
I also had this artist friend who'd paint butterflies and things like that on my head.
I want to be remembered as somebody that tried to respect her integrity as an artist and as a person. And I don't want to be in any box. I don't want to be one thing.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.
I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.
The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.
Any system that sees aesthetics as irrelevant, that separates the artist from his product, that fragments the work of the individual, or creates by committee, or makes mincemeat of the creative process will, in the long run, diminish not only the product but the maker as well.
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
I've been touring for so long, I've kind of honed into exactly what I am, I'm an artist so if you like it, you like it, if you don't you don't, you know?
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
The true artist is never afraid of anything - including the glories of the past.
The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.
As always, my influences are diverse and not what you might expect from a 'heavy metal' artist.
In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
I'd just sort of gravitated toward the arts, and I had always loved music and really loved theater, even though I didn't want to act. For some reason, being in Kansas, you can either be a graphic artist or a visual artist, so I decided, 'I guess I'm going to be a painter.'
If brands can find a voice that matches them, and the artist embraces it, they can find a way that would serve them that doesn't feel like a sellout to the artists and has dramatic impact for the brand.
I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College.
'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
Financiers don't support their directors to cast properly. They don't have the vision of an artist. They're casting to spreadsheets, and it's making movies very mediocre. The movie business used to just be called the movies. Now it should be the business movies.
As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.
As an artist, my only relationship to my audience is through my work. That relationship is sacred to me.
If you want to release your own single, there cannot be a better launch than going to Los Angeles and collaborating with a renowned artist.
I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.
If an artist like Rajnikanth does a film like 'Manichitrathazhu,' it will be a failure.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.
I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
I think it's important to evolve and make a different record every time as an artist.
Being promoted as a bubble-gum type artist that has one hit and it's all over is not something I want to do. I want a long career. I want to continue to play guitar and have as much guitar in there as possible in a commercial song without being too indulgent.
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