The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
Having a first single is such a great opportunity for any artist... I'm very appreciative of the support country radio's given 'Could It Be.'
Being a recording artist, selling music, selling concerts out, having a reality show, starting film; it's great, it's beautiful.
There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.
I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.
I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.
I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
I like to make records sound good. I'm more like a reducer than a producer. If an artist cannot produce themselves, what's the point?
That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
I'm very envious of the few artists who are any good and still do portraits.
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.
I just want to make one really good movie a year. And when I die, to know I was honest as an artist.
Artists, no matter how good their intentions, are always slower than they think.
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges.
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
It's good as an artist to always remember to see things in a new, weird way.
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.
'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks of life.
Does fiction, artistic writing, have much of a future? I must say it's on the way out.
God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
