I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life – as an artist and as a person – has definitely got me smarter and wiser.
If you’re writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
That terrible mood of depression of whether it’s any good or not is what is known as The Artist’s Reward.
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 am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
I don’t mean that if you’re a Christian, walking close to God, you will immediately gain celebrity. you may fail as an artist, because you may not have what the public want at that time, and you have to be prepared for that.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
I just consider myself an artist. I don’t really rap. I don’t really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it.
That’s the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind.
You must not get too possessive, especially in our profession, where you know things aren’t going to be easy. You can either drive the artist crazy, or you can help him or her grow.
It wasn’t until I became a mother that I started to refer to myself as an artist as opposed to a fine art photographer.
One thing that I do want to say is Drake, as an artist, anybody has to respect him. He’s in the game, and he’s been in the game – he has longevity, even if he doesn’t write or writes his music.
The public needs art – and it is the responsibility of a ‘self-proclaimed artist’ to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn’t ready for anyone to hear it. To remedy this, I took to retreating to stairwells as a safe place to sing and write music. It was there that I wrote most of my songs in college and really grew into an artist.
Fame was never something I was seeking in my artistic journey. It’s to be used as a tool for an artist to break open doors and keep creating. That’s how I enjoyed fame in ’74; it was not just for the emptiness of being famous.
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.
An artist must be open to both appreciation and criticism. It’s a part of the learning process, or else there is no growth.
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
I’m 47 years old. I couldn’t compete with Beyonce. I’m not competing with anyone. I’ve already established myself as an artist. I’ve been in this business for 30 years. There’s no reason for me to compete with anyone.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
When you have a sense of calling, whether it’s to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn’t just a casual choice, it’s a divine calling. It’s not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
When I say artist I mean the man who is building things – creating molding the earth – whether it be the plains of the west – or the iron ore of Penn. It’s all a big game of construction – some with a brush – some with a shovel – some choose a pen.
That’s the power of the good con artist: the ability to identify your deepest need and exploit it. It’s not about honesty or greed; we are all suckers for belief.
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
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.
Tupac is my favorite artist, and he had mad style.
As far as I know, no money ever won in a lawsuit by IFPI or the RIAA has even gone to any actual artist.
I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Before Lil Jon and The Eastside Boyz, nobody ever said, ‘I’m a crunk artist. I make crunk music.’
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.
As an artist myself, I know what it’s like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
The biggest challenge, I think for any new artist, is patience.
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist’s performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
I just wanted to be an artist. I didn’t care how or what; I just wanted to express my artistic integrity, and I wanted the world to have a vision of what I was seeing in my mind.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
I am just doing photo shoots. It’s not something that extraordinary. I’m not a great artist, I’m not writing books, I’m not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, ‘Why?’
Ariana Grande is a billionaire before she’s been an artist. You have to work to be able to appreciate what you have… what work did she ever have to do in her life?
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
I’m a real big Marilyn Manson fan. I get a lot of my styles from him. Not even musically – living-wise, too. Marilyn Manson definitely shows me you shouldn’t care what nobody say. I watched a bunch of his interviews, and he’s not just an artist; he’s one of the most intelligent people I ever saw in my life.
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon… We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er.
It’s a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way.
When a great artist gets my attention, I pursue it. If I don’t, someone else will, you know what I’m saying?
I think every artist should go for a Grammy.
Some prescient American collectors, including Vicki and Kent Logan and Mera and Donald Rubell, began collecting Chinese art before 2000 with a genuine passion, but as the auction prices exploded everyone was beating a path to the galleries and artist studios in China. It became the ‘China thing.’
The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.
‘A’ comes from Artist. And ‘Boogie’ from the Bronx. ‘The Hoodie’ part came from just having a hoodie on a lot.
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I’ve ever worked with.
I just work with people that I love and respect, that inspire me to be a better person, a better artist.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
It is said an artist spends their whole life trying to get to the place where their heart was first opened up. ‘Rent’ was that place for me.
My goal the whole time has been for people to see me as a stand-alone artist. I came out with Young Money, the biggest hip-hop label in the world at the time. And then it was, ‘How do I branch away from Lil Wayne?’
I don’t really like the term ‘artist.’ I’m not sure what it means. It’s a bit like ‘love.’
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.
As an artist, you have to work hard for things that you can’t really hold in your hand. I work not for money but for my career, to expand myself as an artist. Every video I make, it’s not making me any money; it’s just because I want to expand.
It’s interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics – how, if you’re an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.
To be a Southern Ground artist, you have to be a lifer. It’s not about winning a karaoke contest or a television show to become famous. It’s about really paying your dues. It’s people I’m fans of and want to help in the business.
