Quotes about artist
artist privilege torment
It is not a torment to be an artist. It is a privilege. Louise Bourgeois
artist silence needs
To be an artist, you need to exist in a world of silence.
artist curiosity intense
Oprah has this intense curiosity that I haven't found with any interviewer. Genevieve Gorder
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An audience really gets the once-in-a-lifetime chance to see one of today's most compelling blues artists doing what he loves to do best. It will be a pretty special show.
artist drawing paintings thread totally
And I make paintings that are totally different, and drawing is something different too. That way, I'm not limited, doing the same thing. There's always a thread of the artist in there, though. I just kind of make what comes out.
artists attached change emotional few heart human inherent speak talent truths understand writers
The human heart doesnt change that much, ... I think theyre a few writers where you dont understand where their talent comes from. Those kind of artists speak inherent emotional truths well always be attached to. Joe Wright
artists developing ethic gave park people physically sculpture seeing talked work
The idea of developing the grounds so there's a sculpture park where people can have conversations with artists is great. People talked with me while I was working, and that gave them a real sense of the work ethic you have to have to be an artist. Just seeing someone physically making art is really educational.
artists bar couple event hard people sudden time view
The event started back in '96. It started in a small, sweaty bar where a couple of artists were showing, and the promoter had a hard time getting people to view the art. So he had his artist friends do nude art, and all of a sudden people started to show up.
artist artists designed emerging encourage program
The Emerging Artist program is designed to encourage young artists and give them a place to show their work.
artist parent honor
I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could. Sufjan Stevens
artist self jazz
Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not forlong, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own. Studs Terkel
artist great-art great-artist
a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ... Stevie Smith
artist talking law
Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that. Stevie Wonder
artist play exciting
The exciting thing about a songwriter is that, you know, particularly if you're a songwriter and an artist and you play the parts and you're producing it and all that, you have various times you have to critique what you do.
artist long musician
Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there. Sonny Rollins
artist leader risk
The greatest artists like Dylan, Picasso and Newton risked failure. And if we want to be great, we've got to risk it too. Steve Jobs
artistic-life artistic interfere
My personal life and my artistic life do not interfere with each other. Stephen Sondheim
artist hands talking
We don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it. Stephen Fry
artist bullshit people
Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies. John C. Reilly
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The law provides that companies cannot get together and pool their copyright and use them for anticompetitive purposes, ... Only about 2 percent of musical artists are signed to record label contracts. Napster enables the other 98 percent to reach audience and compete with record labels. David Boies
artists internet learn powerful problems provides reach starting
The Internet provides a powerful way to get around these problems and artists are starting to learn how to use it to reach out to fans.
artist ideas long
If an artist wants to work with me because they feel I've made some credible albums and there've been things that are long-lasting, it's because those artists took the time and we built an idea.
artist land leader
The aboriginal women leaders of Papunya - the Papunya Artists - performed a dance for me: the Honey Ant dance. They'd never done it for anyone else. They honoured me with a ceremonial stick that signifies the story of the land. Quentin Bryce
artist made music-is
It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing. Questlove
artist ipods people
In the 2000s, I became an artist. I started preserving and educating. I became more obsessed with making iPod playlists for people.
artist white cobain
Kurt Cobain represents a very legit, realistic outlook. Before that, in my head, to be a white artist was to be privileged.
artist awards losing
I feel like the downfall of any person is the second an artist starts celebrating their work themselves, that becomes problematic. And you know, I don't sit there, I don't bask in the awards I've won, you know, read my bank statements, I refuse. To me, that's how you start losing the hunger. So for me personally, I just don't celebrate it. I'm happy, right now.
artist special records
The relationship with a producer and an artist is really special.It's got to be love and respect, amazing mutual respect for each other, because that's what makes a good record. Quincy Jones
artist world way
Prince.. a true artist in every sense of the world.Gone way too soon.
artist littles violence
If I've made it a little easier for artists to work in violence, great! I've accomplished something. Quentin Tarantino
artist want fans
Every time I collaborate with an artist, I want to surprise fans. I want to do something new. Prince Royce
artist law records
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission. Prince
artist use kind
Many artists use their own lives as a kind of case study to examine what it's like to be human. Terry Gross