The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do.
I wear a lot of different hats - from writer to producer and artist. We all do 5 or 6 jobs, everything from creating our own graphic design to actually recording and the whole bit.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
I was a 10 million-plus selling artist.
I love Jay personally and as an artist; I think he's incredible.
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.
The more I grow as an artist, the more I think I become like my father as an artist. The more I diversify, the more I become like my father, which is true to who he was.
I just wanna be a good artist.
My purpose as an artist is to heal the divided feminine in our culture. Well, okay wait, that sounds incredibly cheesy and like something a massage therapist might do at Esalen.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
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.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
I shy away from the word 'creation.' In the ordinary, social meaning of the word - well, it's very nice, but fundamentally, I don't believe in the creative function of the artist. He's a man like any other.
You continue to evolve with each album that goes by and, as an artist, you continue to expand with every recording project.
If I can reach the guy in Alabama that hunts, and he hears that song, and he sees me - like, he's comfortable with me, my image as a person, as an artist - he's willing to sit down and give that song a chance.
I see myself as an artist who happens to do cartoons.
One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
I want to figure out what kind of artist I want to be, because with the 'American Idol' process, it just works really fast. The night of the finale, they said, 'OK, here are all the label people that you're gonna work with, this is the album you're gonna make and blah, blah, blah.' So it was a pretty fast process, but it's been cool.
I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
The artist makes things concrete and gives them individuality.
Her mother, Laurie Simmons, is a contemporary artist, and my stepmother, Cindy Sherman, is a photographer, so they've known each other forever. Lena and I were often at the same dinner parties when we were kids.
Can a secular artist be used as a vessel to bring souls to Christ? Of course... this is God we are talking about!
The artist's job is to be a witness to his time in history.
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.
The body, in 'La Belle Noiseuse,' was the source of the artist's creativity.
I was listening to Jimi Hendrix; I just admire his artistry and creativity as an artist.
The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.
Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.
