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“As an artist, one doesn't know what is real. And so there's a search and a process of trying to locate something that feels or appears or somehow resonates with us on a deeper level. This is why art is such an interesting business to be in.”

Knows Feels Trying Art Real Artist Process Interesting Levels Art Is Deeper

Author:Chris Martin

“As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.”

Want Littles Artist Directors Program Boxes

Author:Angie Stone

“As an artist, that's our job - to be with you in times of celebration and when the world is kicking your ass.”

World Artist Ass Celebration

Author:Killer Mike

“As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.”

Persons Artist Creation Very Positive Positive Person

Author:PSY

“As an artist, the most important feeling is loneliness. So when I say artists need to isolate themselves from society this is what I mean: You have to look for that feeling of loneliness again. Only this way can you have something that is purely your own.”

Way Needs Looks Mean Important Feelings Artist Loneliness

Author:Zhang Xiaogang

“As an artist, there's a sweet, jump-starting quality to [marijuana] for me. I've often felt telepathic and receptive to inexplicable messages my whole life. I can stave those off when I'm not high. When I'm high - well, they come in and there's less of a veil, so to speak. So if ever I need some clarity, or a quantum leap in my own consciousness, or a quantum leap in terms of writing something or getting an answer, it's a quick way for me to get it.”

“As an artist, to release music is what you look forward to. That's what everybody looks forward to when they sign a deal. It feels really good to know I'm actually working towards a release date.”

Knows Feels Looks Artist Deals Music Is Release Release Date

Author:Short Dawg

“As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.”

Thinking Artist Mistake Vote Making Mistakes Being Afraid Biggest Mistake

Author:Richard Rogers

“As an artist, what you do is you put out material constantly. Whether it's films, or TV shows, music... and you know, you hope people respond to it. You always have to know, as well, that not everybody's gonna like it. And that's okay. It's not for everyone. It's just for the crusty nugs.”

People Knows Wells Shows Film Artist Materials Tvs Okay Tv Shows

Author:Pauly Shore

“As an artist, where do you conjure these concepts? They come through you instead of through cognitive thought.”

Artist Concepts Cognitive

Author:Nick Littlemore

“As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.”

People Knows Want Artist Growing

Author:John Darnielle

“As an artist, you are always striving toward an ultimate achievement but never seem to reach it. You shoot a film, and the result could have always been better. You try again, and fail once more. In some ways I find it enjoyable. You never lose sight of your goal. I don’t do my job to make money or to break box office records, I simply try things out. What would happen if I were to achieve perfection at some point? What would I do then?”

“As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.”

Author:Peter Doig

“As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.”

Want Artist Approach What You Want

Author:Janet Fitch

“As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.”

Author:Paul Emsley

“As an artist, you don't stop making art because people are not buying it.”

People Art Artist Art Is Selling Buying

Author:Damien Hirst

“As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.”

Thinking Kind Ends Artist Seeing Describing Arcs Crawling Parabola

Author:Michael Nesmith

“As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.”

Enough Dream Artist Belief Successful Albums Just One Collections Someday

Author:Gloria Estefan

“As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.”

Want Artist Choices

Author:Sergei Polunin

“As an artist, you have a path that you're on that evolves with the kinds of stories you want to tell.”

Want Kind Stories Artist Path Evolve

Author:Daniel Radcliffe

“As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.”

Jobs Artist Given Work Out

Author:Robert Hass

“As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.”

Art Artist Reinventing Reinventing Yourself

Author:David Hammons

“As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.”

Artist Opinion Focus Distraction Guessing Second Guessing Second Guessing Yourself

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.”

Want Feels Artist Inspire Findings Creating Exciting

Author:Mat Kearney

“As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.”

Way Want Writing Different Artist Song Challenges Different Ways Challenge Yourself

Author:Serj Tankian

“As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.”

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“As an artist, you reach for the pen that's full of blood.”

Artist Blood Pens

Author:Paul Monette

“As an artist, you take things from your environment, and there's going to be a style coming out of your environment.”

Artist Environment Style Coming Out Our Environment

Author:Jack White

“As an artist, you want to have an experience. What you need to experience changes over the course of your life because your life changes.”

Want Needs Artist Courses Life Changing

Author:Kiki Smith

“As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.”

Ifs Way Want Done Artist Grows Roles Comfort Actresses Get Better Zone Comfort Zone If I Stay

Author:Jurnee Smollett

“As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.”

Artist Talking Hollywood Obscure Not Talking

Author:Christian Marclay

“As an artist, you're always trying to reach a new height, do something new, try something you haven't done before, and push your boundaries.”

Trying Done Artist Havens Boundaries Height Something New Always Trying

Author:Eric Balfour

“As an artist, you're never happy with anything you do. It's part of the process.”

Author:Kate Bush

“As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.”

Knows Artist You Re Pretty

Author:Gavin Rossdale

“As an artist, you've got to see the mess. That's what we do. We get a human being, and it's like putting together a puzzle. And the puzzle has got to be a mixture, a multifaceted mixture of human emotions, and not all of it is going to be pretty.”

Humans Together Artist Human Beings Emotion Mess Puzzles Mixtures Human Emotions

Author:Viola Davis

“As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.”

Ifs Way Writing Art Two Deals Approach Details London Passing Passings Journalist Fascinating Instruction

Author:Frank Delaney

“As an Asian American at pilot season you take whatever there is.”

Seasons Pilots Asian Asian American

Author:Reggie Lee

“As an Asian American, I'm aware of how stereotypes can be very destructive. We've been defined by the drag queens. And yes, they exist. But we've been defined as irresponsible, flamboyant, loud, and garish. I think what we need to do - and what we haven't done as aggressively as we should have - is to depict the vast diversity of the GLBT community.”

Thinking Needs Should Done Community Havens Diversity Should Have Defined Loud Queens Destructive Drag Stereotype Asian Irresponsible Asian American Flamboyant Drag Queen Glbt

Author:George Takei

“As an aspiring actress, having casual one-nighters, doing drugs and travelling to foreign locales at the drop of a dime was simply part of the landscape. One which Charm wholeheartedly and enthusiastically embraced. Peaches was far too familiar with Charm’s wild escapade’s to do more than raise an eyebrow to her casual gutter talk. One story had involved two Egyptian police officers, half a pound of weed, and if there were such a thing, one of the minor pyramids.”

Humor Weed Egyptian Pyramid Gutter Talk Wild Behavior

Author:A. T. Hicks

“As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.”

Ifs Way Should Writing Stories Artist Imagination Vision Strive Originality

Author:Maurice Sendak

“As an aspiring writer, Kassie now found herself in the center of her own fairy tale and she, at the same time, the very author and heroine of it.”

Romance Fantasy Romantasy The Curse Of The Dark Horseman

Author:Kristina Stangl

Source: The Curse of the Dark Horseman

“As an astronaut, when you're getting ready to go out of that hatch, you know that's the pinnacle of both your career and your life. The view completely blows you away. The real challenge is getting past the excitement and getting focused and down to work.”

Knows Real Past Challenges Views Careers Ready Blow Focused Excitement Astronaut Pinnacle

Author:Thomas Marshburn

“As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.”

May Hours Week Tasks Defined Astronaut

Author:Mae Jemison

“As an astronomer in the true sense of the term, Sir John Herschel stood before all his contemporaries. Nay, he stood almost alone.”

Term Astronomers

Author:Richard A. Proctor

Source: Essays on astronomy: a series of papers on planets and meteors, the sun and sun-surrounding space, stars and star cloudets, and a dissertation on the approaching transits of venus : preceded by a scetch of the life and work of Sir John Herschel

“As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that we can do on scales that we do understand, and there is actually a finite size that I can associate with a super massive black hole.”

I Can Black Can Do Size Details Scales Holes Massive Associates Finite Astronomers Black Hole

Author:Andrea M. Ghez

“As an atheist and lapsed Catholic, I feel the absence of faith in my own life quite acutely.”

Feels My Own Catholic Atheist Absence My Own Life

Author:Ron Currie Jr.

“As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.”

Life Years Book God Reading Belief Answers Christianity Years Ago Mere Atheist Seeking Rational Evolve Physicians Agnostic Theologian Upside Down Agnosticism Belief In God

Author:Francis Collins

“As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense out of your problems. And if you try and find you can't, you have no choice but to be good and scared -- but that's okay!”

Ifs Trying Problem Religion Choices Evil Fear Okay Atheist Scared Be Good Rationalize

Author:Billy Joel

“As an atheist, I am angry that we live in a society in which the plain truth cannot be spoken without offending 90% of the population.”

Angry Atheist Population Offending

Author:Sam Harris

“As an atheist, I believe that all life is unspeakably precious, because it’s only here for a brief moment, a flare against the dark, and then it’s gone forever.”

Inspirational Believe Moments Motivational Life Is I Believe Dark Gone Forever Atheist Flare Brief Moments

Author:J. Michael Straczynski