If you're not a makeup artist, and you just try to go for the big looks, it just gets the best of you.
I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how it's hard to take criticism and all the things like that.
You can see girls getting too excited and they start crying or worse. In a lot of these countries they don't get a lot of gigs to go to, so when they get to see their favorite artist they take full advantage of it. Obviously the excitement builds up too much for some on the night and they get a bit... crazy.
Anyone who doesn't know anything about art knows the name of at least one artist.
I remember early on, in my very, very early days, I had a makeup artist tell me that I needed to get an attitude. I had no idea what he was talking about.
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?'
From their '61 Cavern Club debut to their last rooftop concert eight years later, The Beatles gave every serious artist in their wake the songbook and sound for their career. It's the musical trough from which nearly every musician drinks.
Record contracts are just like - I'm gonna say the word - slavery. I would tell any young artist... don't sign.
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
Style is a big part of my life. I used to work in retail before I was an artist; a lot of people didn't know that. I was so good at selling clothes and shoes, and just the lifestyle, that I could tell what size someone was wearing just by looking at them.
Kendrick Lamar is the real deal. He's a real artist, and he's gonna be here for awhile because this guy is seriously talented.
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
The great thing about doing art shows is you get to meet the people who are interested in your art, and I think that when you're purchasing a piece of art it's a tremendous bonus to get to meet the artist because you get a chance to pick their brain a bit and find out first hand what the piece is about for the artist.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
I was being an artist, being sensitive and technical as artists are. I'm sure Leonardo Da Vinci did that. Artists don't always feel the same as others feel about their work.
I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.
I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.
I didn't have time to be anybody's muse; I was too busy rebelling against my parents and learning to be an artist.
When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.
If I like a make-up artist's look, even if nobody knows about her, I use her. New people give me energy.
Sometimes I think it's the responsibility of the artist to reveal a little more of themselves.
You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
Before 'Gangnam Style' I was not a good attitude artist.
'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.
Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.
If an artist is driven primarily by social responsibility, I think the art probably suffers because, again, just as leadership has a rather defined end point or purpose, social responsibility would seem to have a very clear moral context.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
The jingles saved my life. When I got hired to do that, I was on top. I finally was making a living doing what I loved. Before that, it was so bleak; it got so dark in L.A. I was 25, been living there for seven years trying to make it, and getting really close to getting signed with different bands and as a solo artist only to have my hopes dashed.
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.
Napster is great so long as they put out tracks on there that have been officially released. I don't really mind people downloading my music; I also see it as a compliment. And if you are a real music lover, you want to have the original CD anyway 'cause then you feel more connected to the artist.
