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There are goals that I had set out for myself as an artist. I have accomplished some of them - becoming accepted all over the world - however, other parts of my goals have not been completed.
I found that the artist market was expanding in comics. Marvel was going from something like eight books a month to somewhere in the 20s. As a result of this expansion, Marvel, in particular, was hiring anyone who could hold a pencil. That's how I got my first job there.
Being an artist, you soak up imagery, and you put it back out in whatever form you do your own imagery.
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled.
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.
A make-up artist I know polished her Oscar and it lost its lustre. But if you don't polish it, it doesn't tarnish.
A young artist can become popular more quickly with the Internet providing instant access to one's work.
I think it's the job of the artist to reflect the times and also reflect his or her views of the world.
Modelling, it's being an artist as well. It's just being a silent artist. It takes a lot of self-control and a lot of discipline.
I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.
Everyone in my family is an artist in some capacity whether they're musicians, painters, or sculptors, so it's in their blood.
Cartola is an artist from Brazil who didn't record until much later in his life, but had a big influence on a lot of famous artists down there, like Gilberto Gil. I discovered his music recently when I was in Brazil.
I've probably represented almost every major artist in the world, either directly or peripherally, at one time or another.
As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.
I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.
R. Kelly is one of the pioneers that I grew up listening to. If he's classified as an R&B artist, then I want to be like that. I don't want to have limits either.
Not to compare an actor to a painter, but you can go through different phases and still be the same artist, y'know?
I've always had so much admiration for my mom. She's so inspiring as a woman and as an artist.
I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.
In the 1970s when I started in the art world, no self-respecting artist would have stood in line to try to get on a television show. It never would have happened.
I know what kind of artist I want to be, what I'm capable of, what I'm not capable of.
I try to be a truthful artist and I try to show a level of courage. I enjoy that. I'm a messenger.
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
My favorite Twombly is 'Apollo and the Artist,' with the big 'Apollo' written across it.
I have done only two portraits: one of the artist Francesco Clemente and another of Andy Warhol.
My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist.
A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Asking an artist to talk about his work is like asking a plant to discuss horticulture.
I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company.
Roc was only supposed to be our distributor, but then they ended up recruiting me as the label's artist. They said they really liked my album 'Everything You Wanted.'
I had to live on $17,000 a year until I was 33, because I was a failed artist until I was 29, when I made my first short film that went to Sundance.
You learn really quickly how not only to be an artist, but you also become all of a sudden the CEO and owners of a company that you have to make major decisions about that I don't think we were fully prepared for in the beginning.
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist.
The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.
You're supposed to be a control freak when you're an artist. That's the whole point of having a vision: Why have one if you're not going to protect it?
As a media artist and filmmaker, I'm constantly considering the role of situational context when creating my work.
I feel a lot of guilt about the freedom that being an artist provides. I ask myself, 'Why am I not the guy emptying the trash, why am I the guy who is watching the guy empty the trash?'
I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.
My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had.
Every single item that we come into contact with on a daily basis has been designed by an artist. From the toothbrush we use in the morning, to the defibrillator that could save our lives, an artist is behind the design.
I always wanted to be an artist, whatever that was, like other chicks want to be stewardesses. I read. I painted. I thought.
We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.
I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.
That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well and employs hundreds of thousands of people. What else am I going to do? I'm not an artist. I'm not a writer. I'm not a musician. I'd love to be a tennis player or musician. I'm not.
I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.
Unless artists can remember what it was to be a little boy, they are only half complete as artist and as man.
The wonderful thing about being an artist in L.A. is that there is no taste. There's anarchy of taste, which seems good to me.
Nowhere in the job description of an artist is the requirement that I must validate your taste.
The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
I'm an artist, and an artist doesn't worry about being politically correct when I write.
I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and it's an inspirational, well-written account of an emerging New York artist in the late seventies.
The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue.
My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
When you find fame, or you get signed to a record label, it's not what you imagined - because you imagined they would have 100 percent trust or faith in you as an artist. Unfortunately, that's not really the case - it's what sells.
There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.
The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.
As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
I never stop being a mother and I never stop being an artist. You understand? Which is probably why my kids are so creative, because it's not separated.
No artist is one-dimensional. I get the sense that if I push myself now and if I create a million different-sounding songs - I just feel that’s going to be such a set-up for my ability in the future.
There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
I'm still finding myself as an artist. I'm still experimenting a little bit.
I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
My role now is as an artist and as a mogul to inspire and give others opportunities.
We're all so mauled by information, but it's recycled information. We need to shut it out. So, you've got to get bizarre. This is an artist's purpose - to break away from the recycled. Performance art can do that.
Overall, working with 50 Cent was one of my favourite moments. I grew up, like most of us did, listening to his music and loving him as an artist, so to be able to work with him as an actor was definitely something that was so exciting.
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