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“Sometimes magazines will take artist's creative choices too literally; they assume that I actually live the way I do in music videos. For example: the whole "Dirty" thing. Do you think I wear chaps to the grocery store?”

Thinking Way Sometimes Whole Artist Choices Creative Example Assuming Stores Video Magazines Dirty Groceries Grocery Stores Chaps Time Magazine

Author:Christina Aguilera

“I think an artist can fit under a few different categories depending on how much you explore your creativity. It can vary from artist to artist from musician to performer to vocalist. I thrive on creativity. So in the long run I want to be an all around entertainer.”

Thinking Want Long Different Running Artist Creativity Fit Musician Thrive Categories Performers Long Runs Vary Entertainers Vocalist

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Artists who don't paint aren't artists.”

Artist Paint

Author:Billy Childish

“Artists no longer starve in garrets. Some people may think this is not wholly a good thing, that being an artist has become too comfortable, at least in the West. I'm not sure I agree. It's a mark of civilization to encourage the arts and the life of the mind.”

People Thinking Mind May Art Artist Civilization Comfortable Mark Agree Good Things West Not Sure Being An Artist

Author:J. M. Coetzee

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

Artist Turns Responsibility Pages Piano Microphones

Author:Nick Cave

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

Artist Motivation Song Remains Mediums Prime

Book:Viva la poesia

Source: Viva la poesia

“There's obviously always danger in making music or art for art's sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.”

Art Christian Artist Danger Sake Guilty

Author:Steven Curtis Chapman

“The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work, which generates an inner experience for them. But historically it's a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectator's experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the artist's. That idea comes from an over-industrialized society which has learned to distrust magic.”

Should Art Ideas Artist Pieces Magic Produce Painting Internals Submit Vulgar Distrust Spectators Identical

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.”

Art Artist Turns Frightening

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.”

Artist Development Birth Phases Indifferent Spectators Impassioned

Author:Max Ernst

“To produce pure proletarian art the artist must be at one with the worker; this is impossible, not for political reasons, but because the artist never is at one with any public.”

Art Reason Political Artist Impossible Produce Pure Workers

Book:Some Versions of Pastoral

Source: Some Versions of Pastoral

“Certain jobs [films] are for the business really, because they get an audience, they get a global audience. Certain jobs are as an artist. If I can keep moving forward and strike some form of balance between them two, then I'm going to feel content.”

Ifs Feels I Can Two Jobs Film Moving Form Artist Certain Audience Balance Strikes Moving Forward Keep Moving Keep Moving Forward

Author:Jack O'Connell

“It's great to jump into things you're not sure of and you haven't done and that are a little scary. That's what we have to do, as artists.”

Littles Done Artist Havens Scary Not Sure

Author:Angelina Jolie

“An artist is somebody that puts themselves in a room, they're a wee bit self-indulgent and you know, sink into their music and it [will] be a very personal experience. An entertainer was somebody that took their God-given talent and shared it with people. And I've always wanted to be an entertainer.”

People Knows Self Wanted Artist Given Bits Rooms Talent Entertainers Personal Experiences Self Indulgent God Given Talents

Author:Johnny Reid

“I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me.”

Writing Artist Actors Pay Creative Directors Zero Tribute Creative Art Creative Artists

Author:Clint Eastwood

“Germany is a country that has absolutely had to since the Second World War ask itself massive moral questions. And it's reforged its identity based on culture. I mean, the amount of artists living and working in Berlin is unparalleled. It's one of the strongest economies, not only in Europe, but globally, and it's because of its understanding of the importance of culture.”

World Mean War Country Artist Culture Asks Understanding Moral Economy Identity Amount Europe Importance War Of The Worlds Germany Massive Strongest Berlin Second World War

Author:Cate Blanchett

“I moved on to the University of California, Berkley, coordinating interpreters for Deaf students at the university. The first year I was at Berkley, we brought in artists, performers, actors, and poets to create a Deaf arts festival. I did a lot of the interpreting for the stage performers. By the second year, I realized that I really liked producing arts festivals that had to do something with signing.”

Years Firsts Art Artist Actors Stage Students Poet Moved University I Realized California Performers Deaf Festivals Signing Moved On Interpreting Interpreter Coordinating I Moved On

Author:Jack Jason

“I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul.”

Writing Soul Artist Singers My Soul Great Souls

Author:Robin Thicke

“Any great artist is wrestling with their sadness and loneliness, their fears, anxieties and securities, and they're transfiguring those into complicated forms of expression that affect our hearts, minds and souls and remind us of who we are as human beings, the fragility of our human status and the inevitability of death.”

“The parallels between Elvis and Michael Jackson as incredible artists is evident. But I think that where Michael Jackson even transcends Elvis Presley.”

Thinking Artist Incredibles Evident Parallels

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.”

Knows Artist Sacrifice Sadness Loneliness Depth Great Art Great Artist

Author:Cornel West

“I wanted to be a painter and an artist. And it's interesting that in some of my later musical works, I refer so often and associate myself with works of art.”

Art Wanted Artist Interesting Musical Painter Works Of Art Associates

Author:Gunther Schuller

“I wanted to be an artist, but at age 11, somehow all this musical knowledge and information and love for music that I had came out, and then suddenly it was very clear that I wanted to be a musician of some sort.”

Age Wanted Artist Clear Information Musician And Love Musical Knowledge And Information

Author:Gunther Schuller

“The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.”

World Mean Feelings Seems Age Artist Energy Force Space Modern Objects Cameras Photograph Time And Space Representing Inner World Modern Art Illustrating

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Well, method is, it seems to me, a natural growth out of a need, and from a need the modern artist has found new ways of expressing the world about him. I happen to find ways that are different from the usual techniques, which seems a little strange at the moment, but I don't think there's anything very different about it. I paint on the floor and this isn't unusual - the Orientals did that.”

Thinking World Way Needs Wells Littles Different Moments Seems Happens Artist Found Growth Natural Modern Strange Method Paint Technique Unusual Usual New Ways Modern Art

Author:Jackson Pollock

“Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.”

Knows Years Looks Littles Artist Hours Produce Appearance Favors Neglected

Author:Vanna Bonta

“I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined.”

Thinking Should Hands Jobs Artist Fashion Imagery Hand In Hand Intertwined Fashion And Music

Author:Lady Gaga

“Rays were blazing through the atmosphere of the earth, the horizon became bright orange, gradually passing into all the colors of the rainbow: from light blue to dark blue, to violet and then to black. What an indescribable gamut of colors! Just like the paintings of the artist Nicholas Roerich.”

Light Earth Artist Black Dark Color Painting Blue Passing Passings Atmosphere Horizon Rays Rainbow Orange Violet Blazing Indescribable Dark Blue Colors Of The Rainbow Light Blue

Author:Yuri Gagarin

“The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.”

Thinking Important Artist Community Factors

Book:A Pictorial Autobiography

Source: A Pictorial Autobiography

“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”

World Art War Artist Community Effort Solitude Art Is Flesh Select Community Living

Book:Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

Source: Journals: Early Fifties, Early Sixties

“Every artist feels alone and isolated, Friends are very important in terms of all sorts of definitions of oneself. They tell you what you are and what they are aside from the intellectual aspects.”

Feels Important Artist Term Intellectual Aspect Oneself Definitions Isolated

Author:Jasper Johns

“The technical procedures doubtless release energies in the artist that remain unused in the much more lightweight processes of drawing or painting (remark on printmaking).”

Artist Energy Process Painting Drawing Release Remarks Procedures Printmaking

Author:Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

“You can grow grapes in almost any part of the world. You just have to develop your palate enough to realize wine is an expression of the place where you make it. You don't have to take over the world; just be an artist and express your area.”

World Enough Artist Grows Realizing Expression Areas Wine Grapes Palate

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“One of my biggest heroes in music has been David Bowie. He's said, `I'm going to be a painter now, or I'm going to do some films,' and his audience is very forgiving, because they understand him as an artist. Whether you agree or like the result, you respect that he's expressing his artistic feelings.”

Has Beens Said Feelings Film Artist Results Audience Hero Agree Forgiving Painter Artistic Bowie

Author:Maynard James Keenan

“The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.”

Way Art Spiritual Artist Born Secret Existence Materials Art Is Gains Mysterious Works Of Art Spiritual Life Definite Casual

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art

“If you want to know what's really going on in a society or ideology, follow the money. If money is flowing to advertising instead of musicians, journalists, and artists, then a society is more concerned with manipulation than truth or beauty.”

Ifs Knows Want Artist Money Musician Concerned Advertising Ideology Journalist Manipulation

Book:You Are Not a Gadget

Source: You Are Not a Gadget

“For me Greece is Maria Farantouri. This is how I imagined Goddess Hera to be: strong, pure and vigilant. I have never encountered any other artist able to give me such a strong sense of the divine.”

Giving Able Artist Strong Divine Pure Give Me Goddess Greece Vigilant Hera

Author:Francois Mitterrand

“I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.”

Way Book Play Light Artist Courses Interest Comic Treatment Frank Comic Book Daredevil

Author:James Marsters

“And me I'm in my bedroom drawing in my notebook Because my hand thinks I'm an artist But my heart knows I'm a poet It's just words they mean so little to me.”

Thinking Knows Heart Mean Littles Hands Artist Poet My Heart Drawing Bedroom Notebook

Author:Conor Oberst

“Once we become conscious of a feeling and attempt to make a corresponding form, we are engaged in an activity which, far from being sincere, is prepared (as any artist if he is sincere will tell you) to moderate feelings to fit the form. The artist's feeling for form is stronger than a formless feeling.”

Ifs Feelings Form Artist Fit Activity Conscious Stronger Prepared Engaged Sincere Moderates Corresponding Being Sincere

Author:Herbert Read

“Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.”

Trying Heart Artist Break Ordinary Satisfying Quietness Break Your Heart

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“This was my first encounter with art as art (he saw 'Pinky' painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence and 'The Blue Boy" painted by Thomas Gainborough).. ..somebody actually MADE those paintings.. ..(it) was the first time I realized you could be an artist.”

Firsts Art Made Artist Boys Saws Painting First Time Blue I Realized Encounters

Author:Robert Rauschenberg

“I'm a sponge, the more I absorb, the more I am able to articulate my vision, as artists do, like Picasso. I'm an artist in that light. I went from being an artist to an artiste.”

Light Able Artist Vision Being An Artist Sponges

Author:Usher

“Artists recognize other artists as soon as the pencil begins to move.”

Art Moving Artist Pencils

Book:Rise of Endymion

Source: Rise of Endymion

“Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity.”

Littles Art Helping Artist Careers Obscurity

Book:The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion

“There's a tolerance and this is a really big thing when it comes to really increasing the whole sense of getting something done and boosting the economy. Obviously not everything is going to be a bonanza, some things are going to be awful, but wouldn't it be great if we had a fantastic window dresser to do something with those windows on Fairfield green and those Victoria's Secret windows. I love girls in bras in panties, but these are just mannequins. Wouldn't it be great if some local artists got together and said, "Hey, Victoria's Secret, let's do something!" We need that.”

Ifs Needs Said Done Whole Bigs Together Artist Girl Secret Economy Window Green Tolerance Locals Awful Hey Fantastic Big Things Underwear Victoria Bras Panties Dressers Victoria's Secret

Author:Tina Weymouth

“Like music or art, mathematical equations can have a natural progression and logic that can evoke rare passions in a scientist. Although the lay public considers mathematical equations to be rather opaque, to a scientist an equation is very much like a movement in a larger symphony. Simplicity. Elegance. These are the qualities that have inspired some of the greatest artists to create their masterpieces, and they are precisely the same qualities that motivate scientists to search for the laws of nature. LIke a work of art or a haunting poem, equations have a beauty and rhythm all their own.”

Source: Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

“Norman Rockwell, the Brueghel of the 20th century bourgeoisie, the Holbein of Jell-O ads and magazine covers; by common assent, the most American artist of all.”

Artist Common Century Magazines Ads 20th Century Bourgeoisie Magazine Covers

Author:Jerry Adler

“My work is based on a tradition quite distinct from the Eckersberg tradition, a Nordic line of development that had never been clearly and consistently defined in the literature on art. This line is not a straight one; it has the strangest and most fascinating twists and curves, and includes such artists as Edvard Munch, Ernest Josephson, Hill, Hansen Jacobsen, Johannes Holbek, Jens Lund, and Emile Nolde. Not all of them equally well known.”

Wells Art Artist Literature Lines Known Development Tradition Defined Hills Fascinating Consistently Well Known Curves Twists Nordic

Author:Asger Jorn

“I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.”

Source: Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel

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