“I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.” PeopleKindPersonsHandsUsedArtistChoicesDirectImpressionUsed To BeMainstreamCds Author:Chance the Rapper
“I built a reputation as a songwriter in the industry before my own hits. People were used to coming to me for songs. There were songs like 'Clown' and 'Mountains' that were my songs that I wanted to keep. But the record labels saw me as a songwriter. It was hard to get people to believe in me as an artist.” PeopleBelieveHardWantedUsedArtistSongMy OwnRecordsSawsIndustryMountainBuiltReputationLabelsBelieve In MeSongwritersClownRecord Labels Author:Emeli Sande
“When an artist is in the strict sense working, he of course takes into account the existing tastes, interests and capacity of his audience. These no less than the language , the marble, the paint, are part of his aw material.; to be used, tamed, sublimated, not ignored or defied. Haughty indifference to them is not genius, it is laziness and incompetence.” UsedArtistCultureCoursesLanguageInterestChristianityAudienceMaterialsGeniusTasteCapacityAccountsPaintIndifferenceLazinessIgnoredStrictMarbleIncompetenceTamedHaughty Author:C. S. Lewis
“Great artists are a little too gifted to be bound by boxes and labels, and in saying that, the label 'artist' is to be used lightly.” LittlesDifferentUsedArtistBoundsBoxesLabelsGiftedGreat ArtBeing DifferentGreat Artist Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.” FeelsUsedArtistLike You Author:Pharrell Williams
“We should not have a tin cup out for something as important as the arts in this country, the richest in the world. Creative artists are always begging, but always being used when it's time to show us at our best.” WorldShouldArtImportantCountryShowsUsedArtistCreativeSingersCupsAfrican AmericanUsaBeggingTinCreative ArtCreative ArtistsOpera SingersTin Cup Author:Leontyne Price
“I think we're in an age where artists really have an incredible range of materials at their command now. They can use almost anything from household items - Jackson Pollock used house paint - to, you know, advanced computer systems, to good old oil paint and acrylic paint.” ThinkingKnowsUseAgeUsedArtistHouseMaterialsComputerPaintIncrediblesOilCommandRangeHouseholdItemsComputer SystemsPollock Author:Bill Viola
“I came of age at the end of the 1960s, just when video was also coming into the world. Companies such as Sony and Panasonic were starting to market it and we artists immediately knew how it could be used.” WorldEndsAgeUsedArtistCompanyStartingVideo1960sSony Author:Bill Viola
“On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette.” MeanWholeEarthUsedArtistBlackCan DoModernIvoryPalettePompeii Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir
“As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.” KnowsUsedArtistMastersPhotographyMethodSlaveLoyal Author:Robert Genn
“There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his work cannot be used. It is the end product which counts.” EndsUsedArtistAsksInformationProductsCommunicationOffersStatementsNo Communication Book:Baselitz, paintings 1960-83 Source: Baselitz, paintings 1960-83
“I have read that the ancients, when they had produced a sound, used to modulate it, heightening and lowering its pitch without departing from the rules of harmony. So must the artist do in working at the nude.” UsedArtistSoundHarmonyDeparting Author:Antonio Canova
“In Bergman's world I represented a sort of intellectual, skeptical, ironic person, rather cold and frustrated. When I went abroad and made films in Italy and other places, I was used in different ways. I was rather often cast as crazy people, maniacs. It was very good for me and it was fun because it is nice to play crazy people if you are not in reality. And I think perhaps that changed how Ingmar saw me. Suddenly I was on the more magical side of his world, playing the people with fantasies, variety, the artists.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayPersonsMadeDifferentPlayRealityFilmUsedArtistFunSidesFantasySawsNiceCrazyChangedColdIntellectualVery GoodCastsVarietyDifferent WaysIronicFrustratedSkepticalManiacsCrazy PeopleBergman Author:Erland Josephson
“A landscape clean and crisp in form and colour, rich in inspiration is all that an artist could wish for, begging to be used, and full of inherent possibilities.” InspirationFormUsedArtistWishRichPossibilityCleanLandscapeColourInherentBeggingCrisps Author:Franklin Carmichael
“Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.” KnowsUsedArtistSpeakCreativeOriginalsResponseGenderExcellentIsolationBe CreativeFeedbackWoman Artist Author:Elaine de Kooning
“A flight from London carrying the artist we all used to know as Cat Stevens, now known as Yusuf Islam, was forced to make an emergency landing in Bangor, Maine after his name showed up on a terrorist no-fly list. I tell you, it's a real success story in the war on terror. You know, we finally got the guy that wrote "Peace Train.” KnowsWarRealStoriesUsedArtistGuyNamesKnownCatTrainIslamTerrorLondonListsTerroristFlightEmergenciesLandingWar On TerrorMaineSuccess StoriesReal Success Author:Cat Stevens
“An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.” MayBodyUsedArtistAdvantageConsumingEcosystems Author:Jan Peacock
“I don't really have a problem with the pain of life. Perhaps that is because I am a martial artist and I am used to dealing with pain. Or perhaps I adjusted to pain because there has been a great deal of it in my life.” Has BeensProblemPainUsedArtistDealsBuddhismMartial ArtsRamaMartial Artist Author:Frederick Lenz
“I'm so used to being behind the scenes. I didn't really want to be front and center. One of the elements of my relationships with the artists I work with is that I'm not front and center, and they are.” WantUsedArtistBehindsFrontsSceneElementsBehind The Scenes Author:Arthur Fogel
“Michael Jackson was extraordinary. When we worked together on 'Bad,' I was in awe of his absolute mastery of movement on the one hand, and of the music on the other. Every step he took was absolutely precise and fluid at the same time. It was like watching quicksilver in motion. He was wonderful to work with, an absolute professional at all times, and it really goes without saying... a true artist. It will be a while before I can get used to the idea that he's no longer with us.” I CanIdeasHandsTogetherUsedArtistStepsWonderfulMovementAbsolutesExtraordinaryAll TimeAweMasteryPreciseFluidEvery StepTrue Artists Author:Martin Scorsese
“To cook, and to do it well, every talent must be used; the strength of a prize-fighter, the imagination of a poet, the brain of an empire builder, the patience of Job, the eye and the touch of an artist, and, to turn your mistakes into edible assets, the cleverness of a politician.” WellsEyeJobsUsedArtistTurnsImaginationMistakeBrainTalentPoetPoliticianCookingFighterCooksEmpiresPrizeAssetsClevernessBuilder Author:Anne Ellis