If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.
All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.
The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
To all appearances, the artist acts like a mediumistic being who, from the labyrinth beyond time and space, seeks his way out to a clearing.
I don't think I live the lifestyle that's expected of a quote unquote R&B artist. I'm just not that dude.
An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
Just as theater has to be where people live, actors have to go out in the marketplace - not be cut off by a lens. Either an artist grows or he stagnates.
For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.
They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.
I think a lot of Indians want Indian artists to be cultural cheerleaders rather than cultural investigators.
When have you ever heard of a cantor or any artist turning anyone down when he is strongly urged to perform?
