Artist Quotes - Page 179

I'm still an artist who's searching, trying to evolve, an artist who - nine times out of ten - is dissatisfied with her work, and beats herself, and goes out there and tries again and again, and falls on her face and looks for new challenges.

When I accept a role, I feel that as an artist I have to submit completely to the tutelage of my director. And while I expect to be heard and encouraged and honored, at the end of the day, man, it's the way the director wants it.

Times are completely different now. If you're a brand new artist with a record you want to release to the masses, I would suggest you try and get it hot yourself first. This way you can create your own demand so you'll end up having the option of demanding what you want if you do decide to sign with a label. If you don't and you still get on hot on your own, you then have the ability to reap all of your profits.

During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.

When I started, I was 23 years old directing my own music videos; I'm co-producing on my album; I'm hands-on with everything. I'm more than just a pretty boy: I'm an artist. I'm not saying I'm a hip-hop music artist, I'm an artiste.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

Of all cold words of tongue or pen, the worst are these: "I knew him when -

Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind.

Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom.

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land.

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

The essentially unchangeable established order of things, slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely...

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.

The worst scientist is he who is not an artist; the worst artist is he who is no scientist.

And if there is still one hellish, truly accursed thing in our time, it is our artistic dallying with forms, instead of being like victims burnt at the stake, signaling through the flames.

My business is to be talented, that is, to be capable of selecting the important moments from the trivial ones. . . . It's about time for writers - particularly those who are genuine artists - to recognize that in this world you cannot figure out everything. Just have a writer who the crowds trust be courageous enough and declare that he does not understand everything, and that alone will represent a major contribution to the way people think, a long leap forward.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Part of what we admire about a painting or a piece of music is the order which the artist has imposed upon what would otherwise have appeared disconnected or chaotic.

In a sense, the music business and I haven't always been the best of bedfellows. Artists often have to fight their corner. Your music goes through these filters of record labels and media, and you're hoping you'll find someone who'll help you get your work into the world.

The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house.

Coming tight was boring to me, just the face... it didn't have enough information.