Artist Quotes - Page 262

I think most artists will experience a lot of negative people on Twitter but, thank God, I've got so many followers that I'm not able to see them that much. I'll see some from time to time but, for the most part, I always focus on something good.

I think Amy is a really difficult example. With any artist, none of us understands what it's like having the world's media scrutinising everything you do.

I am a big fan of Bleach, as well as other Manga titles. And I am certainly sorry if anyone was offended or upset by what they perceive to be the similarity between my work and the work of artists that I admire and who inspire me.

The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.

It's funny, growing up there was never anybody around me with any kind of artistic bent.

I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.

I'm very fussy about how my records sound, but I'm very aware that because of the way they sound, I will never be a big-selling, mainstream artist because the public has gotten conditioned to hearing pop music in a certain way. And I don't do it that way.

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

The actualising of God through the medium of the love song remains my prime motivation as an artist.

We are still struggling with people who don't feel comfortable going into museums. As a visual artist I ask how artists can be part of enacting a change.

My responsibility as an artist is to turn up at the page or the piano or the microphone. The rest is up to God.

We as visual artists need to continue to be renegades and say, "Yes I am here to do a project, but what is the social service?"

I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.

There's so much great stuff out there. The artists who've been most formative to me are the ones I've had the privilege to work with over the years.

I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.

I tend to look out for things with a resonance to my youth—artists or objects that seemed romantic all those years ago. I never buy anything purely for its value. I like possessions that smile back at me.

I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.

I'm a free spirit and that definitely comes from my upbringing, so it's definitely shaped me as an artist.

As for today's music, Nicki Minaj is killing it. She's an amazing artist.

I'm privileged that I'm an artist.

Any time you turn off and let someone else make any artistic decision for you, you make a mistake.

Certain artists can get away with certain things. Certain things are acceptable for certain people. It's a difference.

The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

I had artists that refused to work on Chappie if they were working on a design that actually said Denel on the side of the thing. But anyway, it's the blurring of fiction and reality that was appealing and I certainly did not want them to be in the movie and not be themselves.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.