We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
The artist needs to understand the truth that lies at the bottom of an enigma.
It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it.
Some people said, 'Oh you're going to become a fine artist now and do exhibits and stuff.' But I have no desire to do that. I really like design and I'm going to stay with it.
I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots.
I was more than just a moody artist.
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
I listened to a lot of Amy Winehouse: her albums 'Frank' and 'Back to Black'. She was such an incredible artist. She was just so raw and had her unique sound; she paired jazz with pop and was so soulful at the same time. So I pulled from her a lot in the beginning.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead. Not power-ridden monuments, but individual buildings which tell a quieter story: the artist's studio, or the Belle Epoque house built by a forgotten financier for a just-remembered courtesan.
Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.
Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.
I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.
My parents constantly tried to talk me out of being an artist. They had gone through the whole journey with my sister and just wanted me to have a normal teenage life.
A lot of people think that there has to be extreme continuity in an album, but if you look at my background, it's variety! I want to see some variety in an artist, I want to be entertained, I want some depth. Show me some different styles!
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
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 don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
Nowadays, with the state of the music business, for any artist, whether you're up-and-coming or you've been in it for awhile, you have to explore different revenues and different ways of expressing yourself.
An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
I come from a family of business people, but I had the idea I wanted to become an artist.
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.
Mix CDs are interesting. I'm known more for my artist albums and less for my mix CDs.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
If a Korean artist reaches to the top, we're all ready to stand up and applaud for him or her.
My favorite all-time artist... I would say, I think that must be Sigur Ros, I love that band. It's like going to the stars for me. When I put the music from Jonsi or Sigur Ros on, it's so relaxing, it's warm and it never gets boring to listen to, you always hear new things. Yeah, that must be my favorite band.
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
When I started writing, I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
Shania Twain and Martina McBride and all these wonderful women were saying that it's awesome to be a woman, and it's awesome to be a confident woman. Obviously, I could never compare myself to them, and I want to be my own thing, but I think that message is what I want to say as an artist.
It's nice to see people invest in what you do as an artist and sing the songs back at you and feel something. You get to feel something more than what you were feeling when you made the record.
We all have our things that we go through, and I wanted to be an artist that people could listen to and feel like they're not alone. I want to be empowering.
I think, as an artist, you want to keep going - you want to keep taking challenges; you want to be pushed, in a way - and I think Sonic Evolution does that, it makes me feel a little uncomfortable and get out of my comfort zone.
