Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.
If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.
I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.
Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.
To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
