The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.
Video is a funny thing. It's one thing to be an artist, singer-songwriter, and use words and create pictures in people's minds. And then be asked to do video for it, to actually give a certain visual for your song.
The artist is chosen by God to fulfill his commands and must never be overwhelmed by public opinion.
It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and lit...
All of them had so much to offer us as far as, you know, knowledge in the music industry, and especially Randy and Paula because, you know, they've been artists.
I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
My priority in life is my whanau, followed by my work as an artist, which has blessed me with the ability to provide opportunities working with others to advance the well-being of Maori.
I think for anyone who follows the 'artistic life,' a certain amount of selfishness and self-involvement is part of the package. You're probably already disregarding a certain material life you could have.
We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.
Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.
In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.
The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.
I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.
I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.
I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.
