Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature.
What is it they want from the man that they didn't get from the work? What do they expect? What is there left when he's done with his work, what's any artist but the dregs of his work, the human shambles that follows it around?
I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.
Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.
Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there's no such thing as perfect.
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
I have always been infatuated with country music. Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories. I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.
I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.
But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
I was certain when I was about 10 years old that I was going to be a special effects artist or a make-up man. I loved that stuff and pursued it for quite some time, actually.
I'd fully taken the road many people start on, but most abandon: common sense had given me a miss, and I'd become an artist.
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
In Italy the artist is a god. Now if the artist is a god, the scientist is likewise a god.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist.
I feel every artist has a certain amount of fan following.
I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
I like the idea that paintings are not representations of an artist's psyche. Making the paintings is what gives the artist her psyche in the first place.
They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist.
I didn't expect to become an artist. I was not comfortable going out on the road.
You know, when I put out records that may not work or connect with the audience, it's because I'm pushing myself as an artist creatively, because I'm just bored doing what everyone wants me to do.
I didn't really think about becoming a professional artist until high school, when I realized that everything else required too much math.
To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way.
