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I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
I have my struggles. But I'm doing whatever it takes to be an artist, to be the best technical jumper I can be, the best spinner I can be. Nothing is easy about that. But I'm doing whatever I can to be the best.
An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public.
I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.
That's John Constantine. You put him in a corner, and you squeeze him, and he'll find his way out. There's something in him - he's a great escape artist.
You're really lucky as an artist if you get a role that changes you as a person.
I love both acting and programming equally. I think it enriches me and enhances me as an artist.
I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.
I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.
When I came out, I said, 'I'm going to be a proud gay artist.' I'm not going to be Melissa Etheridge. But she's a goddess!
I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I've had that I'm so thankful for.
I worked as an artist, played in a band, met Andy Warhol, Christo, Lou Reed, and David Byrne. I had fun.
The job of the artist is to go to the places where most other people are embarrassed to go to. And show it.
I believe that if your primary motivation in life is to be moral, you don't become an artist.
I have to prioritize: father first, and then a pastor and a recording artist and entrepreneur. I try to put everything in proper perspective, and then the proper priority.
Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.
I think there are a lot of pictures to make. I sometimes question whether I'm even an artist or just a painter. To me, the making of the pictures is the most important thing.
An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.
No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.
As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
I think that there's a difference between being an entertainer and being an artist.
I don't consider myself an entertainer. I consider myself an artist, and I think with that comes responsibility.
My mom was an orphan, and there was never anybody to tell her what she could or couldn't do. At the core, she's probably an artist - an artist and a feminist.
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.
I'm not a politician because I'm an artist. Politicians have a very easy answer for a very complicated question. I have a very complicated question for what you consider very easy situations.
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.
Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.
The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.
You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.
If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.
Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.
Just doing a project because it's an opportunity won't create meaning. As an artist, I need something to communicate.
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.
Since the tubes of paint used by the artist are manufactured and ready-made products, we must conclude that all the paintings in the world are 'ready-mades aided' and also works of assemblage.
In our life there is a single color, as on an artist's palette, which provides the meaning of life and art. It is the color of love.
Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.
With comics, there's no budget. There's a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.
All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
When you're an independent artist, you need as much play or promotion as you can get.
I don't think it pays to just be an artist, particularly for kids of color - there will be fewer roles.
My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.
A true artist is one who, even after doing a lot, he reminds himself that he hasn't done anything.
It's very hard for an artist to negotiate their fees. My job is to act; my manager's job should be to handle the business side of it.
There isn't a single artist out there, I'm sure, who wouldn't take the most perfect record deal. If the right record deal came along, like, the perfect deal, we'd definitely take it.
Hopefully, one day I won't have to be so caught up in all of that day-to-day, the Twitter and the Instagram. But I also would like to, at some point, turn off and take a break and also be, like, an artist.
I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line.
I knew so many people were coming up to me because they knew who I was, not because they were fans of my music. That bothered me because I don't want to be a celebrity; I want to be an artist.
I want to be an artist that grows slowly. If you appear overnight, there's a chance that you will also just disappear overnight.
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
Stealing Chanel' was very different for me as an artist. I had to embrace and expose my vulnerabilities, instead of manifesting a character.
The first album is the prelude to the full story of Luke James. It establishes me as an artist you can look forward to.
To have your first No. 1 as an artist was everything I could have ever dreamed for. Now we're keeping our fingers crossed, and hopefully we'll have many more, but there's certainly nothing like the first one.
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.
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist.
I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.
That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
When I'm working with an artist, my job is to make their vision come to life.
There ought to be an artistic depot where the artist need only hand in his artwork in order to receive what he asks for. As things are, one must be half a business man, and how can one understand - good heavens! - that's what I really call troublesome.
A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.
I've been journaling longer than I've been a musician, longer than I've been an artist, longer than I've been a writer in general.
I'm a songwriter-singer. I'm very vocal oriented, of course, but songwriting - no matter whether it's for myself or another artist - is of paramount importance to it all.
I'm always working my own thing. A few times a week - I try to not go too crazy - I'm working with some other artist. But I'm constantly working my own stuff, and my own stuff seems to come in little bursts.
Toward his critics, the artist harbors a defensive ace: knowledge that the future will erase the present.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
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