Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.
No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
Every man is an artist.
I feel like Sony appreciates good music from a talented artist.
The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it.
If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.
I include myself in the posters because I feel like it forms a more intimate relationship between the artist and the person passing by. And it's important to include some vulnerability and use fears and rejections and various aspects from my own life so people look at my work as more than greeting card fodder.
I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.
My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime.
If the newspapers cut me up so much that I shall not venture before the world again, I have resolved to become a house painter; that would be as easy as anything else, and I should, at any rate, still be an artist!
I think, for me as an artist, there are no boundaries. As long as I'm creating in a way that isn't trying to re-traumatize any wounds that I do have.
I think it's natural for an artist to explore as they evolve.
I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.
I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.
You know, my mom, who inspired me to be a novelist, I remember her reading 'The Agony and the Ecstasy,' about Michelangelo, and saying, 'No mother would want that for her child, no matter how great the artist.' I have my share of demons, but I am a gregarious sort.
You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.
Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.
I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay. I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.
Being able to make work - if it's on your terms, and it's a good fit with the people who are supporting it - can be a very interesting exercise. When it doesn't work is when an artist just connects with a brand, and they try to take advantage of each other.
When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
It's the role of the artist to pursue content.
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.
Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world of improv and comedy, you're able to let it flicker and fall out.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.
