“Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.” IfsKnowsYearsDoeStillsHelpingArtistStuffLevelsKnow HowRecordsFieldsStudiosSoftwareMicrophonesLaptopsPlaying FieldsYears Of Experience Author:Roger McGuinn
“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.” PeopleWritingYearsFirstsJobsArtistSongHalfFourClaimsStudiosSandwichesElevenWriting SongsSubwayHalf A YearProcessors Author:Frank Ocean
“I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything.” KnowsGivingDoeShowsArtistStepsDadPressesMy DadStudiosArtisticToesArtistic Freedom Author:Ashlee Simpson
“An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.” ShouldMindArtistSpaceRoomsDisciplineStudiosSmall SpacesSmall Rooms Author:Leonardo da Vinci
“As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.” ArtistProcessResultsStudiosTechniqueMethodology Book:Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists
“Even at this late date, I go into my studio, and I think 'Is this going to be it? Is it the end?' You see, nearly everything terrorizes me. When an artist loses that terror, he's through.” ThinkingEndsArtistFearLosesLateTerrorStudios Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“Chaos is everywhere - and artists, to fashion art and live truthfully, have no choice but to invite this unwanted guest right into the studio.” ArtArtistChoicesFashionChaosStudiosInvitesGuestsUnwanted Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“The artist, who must venture into the studio and risk there, and then venture into the marketplace and risk again, is obliged to learn how her defences work, so that she can drop and raise her guard instantly.” ArtistRiskRaisesStudiosVentureObligedMarketplaceDefence Book:Affirmations for Artists Source: Affirmations for Artists
“Once I started reinventing for myself what being an artist was - not going into a studio, but making things on my own terms in response to being out in the world - I started to really enjoy it... I realized that everything else for me was hell.” WorldArtistEnjoyTermMy OwnHellResponseStudiosI RealizedRenewalBeing An ArtistReinventing Author:Cornelia Parker
“An artist needs the best studio instruction, the most rigorous demands, and the toughest criticism in order to tune up his sensibilities.” NeedsArtistOrderDemandCriticismStudiosTunesInstructionSensibilityTune Up Author:Wayne Thiebaud
“I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded by Medieval and Renaissance architecture and to hold a tube of Alizarin Madder Lake in my artist's hand and marvel at the shiny goop inside.” RealHandsArtistAirPaintingBecomingStudiosArchitecturePainterLakesRomeMedievalRenaissanceTubesFooled Author:Mark Kostabi
“Sometimes you're a psychiatrist and sometimes you're a group therapist. The dynamics in between people and the misgivings sometimes that artists have when they get into the studio because they're under a different level of scrutiny. A lot of them can be insecure about it. My job is not simply to make musical determinations but sometimes to just keep people from flipping out during the process.” PeopleDifferentSometimesJobsArtistProcessLevelsGroupsDeterminationMusicalStudiosInsecurePsychiatristTherapistsScrutinyDynamicsDifferent LevelsMisgivingsFlipping Out Author:Todd Rundgren
“Things have changed a great deal since the days of Mr. Mayer. The studios no longer control, as they did in those days, artists or directors or producers, as the case may be.” MayArtistDealsCasesChangedDirectorsStudiosProducersThings Have ChangedMayer Author:Lew Wasserman
“Artists should imprint their handwriting on the work, because if they give a piece to a fabrication studio, the craftsmen there may actually be too perfect; you don't see the quirks that the artist would have developed.” IfsGivingShouldMayArtistPerfectPiecesStyleStudiosCraftsmanHandwritingQuirksFabrication Author:Grayson Perry
“In order to be artists we need to be in our studios, in our private rooms... in our private personal space... that sacred protected space, so we can make our work. That's the only work that's worth making, right? That's the place where we can be free enough and vulnerable enough to share what we have to share.” NeedsEnoughArtistOrderSpaceRoomsShareSacredStudiosVulnerableProtectedPersonal Space Author:Adam Leipzig
“Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.” KnowsNeedsKindArtistCoursesGreaterOur LivesSkillsLosingCommunicateStudiosEnormousSymbols Author:John Hench
“Being an artist is not just about what happens when you are in the studio. The way you live, the people you choose to love and the way you love them, the way you vote, the words that come out of your mouth... will also become the raw material for the art you make.” PeopleWayArtHappensArtistMaterialsMouthsVoteStudiosYou ChooseBeing An ArtistRaw Materials Author:Teresita Fernandez
“These days there are painters that go inside a factory in order to be inspired by the noise of machines, so that it affects their works. Of course, artists need sensibility; sensibility towards their environment and their community, but when they are stirred enough by their experiences in their society they can create their art in small studios.” NeedsArtEnoughArtistOrderCoursesCommunityEnvironmentMachinesInspiredStudiosNoisePainterThese DaysFactoriesSensibilityBe Inspired Author:Guity Novin
“I'm truly blessed to be doing what I've always wanted - CREATE. I have found a freedom that is hard to put into words. I always wondered about my projects - which artists are working on what, and which directions should I take? I don't even think of those things now. I passionately go into my studio and ask myself, what would I like to create today?” ThinkingShouldHardTodayWantedArtistAsksFoundProjectsBlessedStudiosShould I Author:Steve Kaufman