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I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
Every animated film that I've worked on - whether it was as a story artist or as Head of Story or even as director - where we originally started out with our story and where we eventually ended up were often very different places.
No one really had to encourage me to become an artist; it was just something I knew I had to do. I was drawn to things that seemed impossible.
I think the pairing of your material practice with your subject is something that is the constant concern of every artist for time immemorial.
When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.
I've come to understand my role. On some level, I provide the context for them to shine. I also know my role is the steward of the songs, and the center point, the artist that the stuff all revolves around. But I really try to honor that.
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.
I don't understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don't mix.
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
To be an artist includes much; one must possess many gifts - absolute gifts - which have not been acquired by one's own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist much possess the courageous soul.
With my friends in Brooklyn, many of them started out as artists. I saw many of these friends move into late middle age, still struggling without health insurance or a cushion. I saw people who had given up being artists. Being an artist necessitates a compromise or living on the edge.
I started off as a mimicry artist, have sung 'Gaana' folk music and popularized pop music in the South before I got into acting.
I'm more of an artist and a songwriter than I am a DJ. That word seems a little bit - well, it doesn't really describe what I do.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
Write a story a great writer would write. Because part of becoming an artist is pushing through all the disbelief of those around you, deciding that you are a writer when you have no idea what a plot is or whether what you've written is any good, or anything.
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the white professors were relieved, and the black students were like, 'She's on our side.' These are the kinds of issues that a white male artist just doesn't have to deal with.
I am performing this role of the artist and this role of the 'negress' coming into a white-box institution. It's kind of a self-appointed role: the self-designated negress.
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.
As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
When I started out, I wanted to be the kind of artist who could play the CMA Music Festival and then turn around and play Bonnaroo, and I've managed to do both.
I think that it's the job of the artist to be in transition and constantly learn more.
The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.
I always wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know how someone could make a life out it.
I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.
I set my sights upon becoming the kind of artist who would make a contribution to art history.
Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.
I think I am an artist. I think I am Juan Gabriel, who has given so much with my songs.
A contemporary artist can use the findings of all epochs and all styles, from the most primitive literary expressions up to the most refined products of the baroque.
After I left college I thought, very naively, that either you became someone interesting - an artist - or you went into academia. If you ended up in an office you were dull and lacking. And I ended up in an office.
Nothing convinces an artist more of the arbitrariness of the means to which he resorts to attain a goal - however permanent it may be - than the creative process itself, the process of composition.
Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
I have no regrets, though I was the first artist to stylize the national anthem, and I got a lot of protests for it. I have no regrets. America has been good to me. I'm glad that I'm here.
I take pride in the fact that I was the first Hispanic artist to really crack the English market.
I don't think Hank Greenberg thought of himself as the first Jewish baseball player - he was a baseball player who happened to be Jewish. I'm an artist who happens to be Latin.
I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.
I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.
I'm not an abstract artist; I leave that to others. To me, abstract art ended with Kazimir Malevich's 'Black Square.' To continue it is senseless.
My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist, just a musician in general. And that's the reason I went to college and got my degree, which has been great for me. It's helped me a lot with my career.
Part of me believes that the completed record is the final measure of a pop musician's accomplishment, just as the completed film is the final measure of a film artist's accomplishments.
If you're a traveling artist, you probably experience insomnia at some point. You need things to be the right temperature, the right light... it's essential.
There are a lot of producers who basically have their sound, and if the artist works with them, you almost know what the record's going to sound like before it comes out.
The world that I know and the world that I come from is from the arts, and my wife's an artist, and I've been a musician since I left college, and there's tons of musicians I'd love to play.
One of the things about dealing with an artist is that their art is essentially - if they're successful, it's kind of lightning in a bottle. There is no formula for it.
Because I went to Chouinard, which then became CalArts, I became a multi-discipline artist - it wasn't just about painting, it was about media and performance.
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
I do think Australians as a rule have a very good sensibility to them, and I think most people, if they were given the option, wouldn't choose to rip off a filmmaker or an artist - I don't think its part of the Australian psyche.
I was kind of thrown into - I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist. I was just playing music for the fun of it and writing songs. That was kind of my escape, you know, from the humdrum of the world.
I became a recording artist before I knew it. And I just - when I would listen to my old records, I'd just hear this young, extremely nervous fella that that made me want to run out of the room, you know, rather than listen to what he had to say.
Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.
But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
Marvin Gaye was one of the coolest. I look to him as a style icon and as an artist.
I see the new Latin artist as a pioneer, opening up doors for others to follow. And when they don't open, we crowbar our way in.
As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.
When you write as an artist, you just tell a story and people say it addresses issues.
I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.
An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.
Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.
As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.
I essentially started out with a Western series for WildStorm/DC but didn't want to be perceived as a 'Western artist.' I did a couple of super-hero things at Marvel but didn't want to be one of those guys, either. I loved all these genres and wanted to play in a very big toy box. Enter 'Planetary.'
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
I read Nietzsche when I was a teenager and then I went back to reading him when I was in my thirties, and his voice spoke directly to me. Nietzsche is such a superb literary artist.
Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch.
I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.
I started out as musician and recording artist but quite soon started to do my own videos. One thing led to another, and soon I was making videos for a living.
I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.
Sometimes as an artist you get wrapped up in what you are doing and you can't be objective.
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.
Chris Brown is a fantastic artist and songwriter and to be able to work with him was kind of unbelievable.
On the first season of our show, I commissioned a Native American artist to make up, 'cause I'm known for the tomahawk, besides the hair and the leather outfit and the whole thing.
I commissioned this artist to make these silver tomahawks by hand. Larry Sellers, who plays Cloud Dancing on the show, blessed and cleansed them and all.
I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
Any artist that's involved in their work is inevitably going to have a focus in what they do.
I have not become the artist I believe I am. I want to become a stadium act. I'm not done at all.
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