“Most people think in order to validate yourself as an artist, you have to write your own songs. I commend the guys that do. I've done it. But I also think that you can pick great songs outside that you didn't write that can help your career.” PeopleThinkingWritingDoneHelpingArtistGuySongOrderCareersPicksWrite Your Own Author:Jake Owen
“Artists, writers and people in creative fields are entrepreneurs by necessity. Nobody gives them a paycheck or picks up their medical insurance. The ones who succeed learn to think and act like 'independent operators.' I think people who are technically 'employees' have to think this way as well. The company is not looking out for you.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingWellsArtistCompanyCreativeFieldsSucceedPicksIndependentEntrepreneurMedicalEmployeePaychecksOperatorsMedical Insurance Author:Steven Pressfield
“A pick-up artist gave me a good piece of advice: the three most important things in a relationship are honesty, trust and respect, and if you don't have those, you don't have love.” IfsImportantArtistThreePiecesAdviceHonestyPicksImportant ThingsTrust And Respect Author:Neil Strauss
“It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the secular fashion of the immediate generation before us and immerse oneself in that as your tradition. That's why Christian artists so often seem to be a generation late.” SeemsAgeChristianDesireArtistCultureChristianityGenerationsFashionStupidLatePicksTraditionOneselfRelevantSecularShort SightedUnchristian Author:Calvin Seerveld
“I don't look at myself as a celebrity. People recognize me, but it's all about my music, my songs. It's not like I'm a greater being. I take my kids to school, pick them up, go to the grocery store. I'm a mother, and my kids mean more to me than even being an artist.” PeopleLooksMeanKidsSchoolMotherArtistSongGreaterPicksStoresGroceriesBeing An ArtistGrocery Stores Author:Faith Evans
“When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply say, 'If you know less, you're better off as an artist.” IfsKnowsMomentsArtistKnow HowPicksThat MomentBrushesBetter Off Author:Milton Resnick
“I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.” IfsWould BeArtistColorEasierPicksCamerasProducersDevelopingFiltersMotion Pictures Author:John Hench