The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
When you’re, like, 190 pounds, dark-skinned, and a new artist that no one really cares about, people don’t really take the time to make you look beautiful.
When you’re young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I’ve graduated from that school.
Everyone looks to an artist for something more than just the music, and that message of being comfortable in my own skin is number one for me.
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
As I grew older, I realised that Bruce Lee was an actor first and a martial artist second. If he wasn’t a convincing actor and didn’t have the emotion in his eyes before delivering a kick or a punch, it wouldn’t have made that much of an impact.
An artist’s career always begins tomorrow.
The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
There was a long time where I was an ‘artist’ in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.
I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.
I think, as an artist, you have to have experienced some deep turmoil, some kind of pain, because that’s what connects you with the world. That’s what makes it juicy!
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.
My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They’ve always been supportive of everything from the beginning.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
When you’re a writer, your song has to resonate with the person you’re writing for in order for them to want to sing it. But if you’re an artist, you can sing whatever you want.
Just because you like one song from an artist, that doesn’t make you a fan.
As an artist, I never want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy, and I want my music to touch people for years to come.
I grew as an artist and a person. I’m just ready to work, get this money, get this new fan base and tour all over the world.
Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It’s a black wall. It’s a thief.
I always knew I was gonna be an artist. I was very confident in that.
Sometimes, the songs that really affected me were not from the artist catalogue of their music, like the song ‘Thunder Road’ by Bruce Springsteen. I never got into any of his other music, but that song, to this day, is in my top three lyrical masterpieces of all time.
The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I.
I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.
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.
For a young artist to really make it and make money is a lot more difficult these days.
I don’t think I’m in any position to call myself a martial artist. I’m a student of the martial arts.
Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
The true artist doesn’t substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.
I never look for music by genre. I look for an artist who puts a dependable trademark on things. Like Elvis Costello – he’s a great songwriter who presents his songs in a number of contexts. I feel the same about my own music.
Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.
When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music – writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
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.
Computer technology is so built into our lives that it’s part of the surround of every artist.
For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.
Training with Billy Robinson is just like any martial artist who would go to the old master of the art. He’s so knowledgeable.
An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
An artist needn’t be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
Let not a man do what his sense of right bids him not to do, nor desire what it forbids him to desire. This is sufficient. The skillful artist will not alter his measures for the sake of a stupid workman.
Real talent is mixing realism with bluff. Every great artist I really respect has a certain amount of bluff; sooner or later you have to be a conjurer, and conjure images.
As an artist, I’ve always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
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.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
An artist is not special. An artist is an ordinary person who can take ordinary things and make them special.
If I had to compare myself to another artist, I wouldn’t. I feel like my lyrics are really strong. I’m good at painting pictures and telling picture stories.
You can’t stop an artist from expressing his views through art.
I started buying films a couple of years ago. The first film-maker I began to obsessively collect was Andy Milligan. He was a New York frustrated artist.
The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
I don’t write for a particular audience. I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
I started off throwing out ‘Artist.’ I made that my first mixtape. Then, I threw out ‘TBA,’ which means ‘To Be Announced.’
I’m not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.
I love ‘Sunday in the Park with George.’ I saw that when I was just, just starting theater school, and I remember singing ‘Finishing the Hat’ or at least reading the lyrics to ‘Finishing the Hat’ and other songs from ‘Sunday in the Park with George’ to my mom to try to explain why I wanted to be an artist.
In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who’s been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It’s somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.
My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.
Something happened when I was in elementary school. A Disney artist named Bruce McIntyre retired, and he had done drawings for ‘Pinocchio’ and ‘Snow White’ that was just classic stuff. He moved to the town I grew up in, Carlsbad, and he became a part-time art teacher at our elementary school.
