“You get used to it when you feel like you're an artist.” FeelsUsedArtistLike You Author:Pharrell Williams
“I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.” ThinkingFeelsShouldPersonsArtMatterPainArtistSufferingLike YouDemonPain And Suffering Author:Marilyn Manson
“If people like you, they will like your magic. If you are an artist at what you do, they will sing your praises and applaud your artistry.” PeopleIfsArtistMagicLike YouPraiseArtistry Author:Paul LePaul
“You forget how many people watch TV until you come into a town like this. Everybody knows you, and I'm always humbled, especially when there are 500 little kids who all have their hair done like yours and want to be designers.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesDoneKidsArtistForgetWatchesTvsLike YouHairTownsDesignerLittle Kid Author:Genevieve Gorder
“It [lighting the set up] is quite a process. It's like drawing. It's like being an artist. You pencil it in first, and then you ink it. When you're filming, it's like you're penciling it all in. You know where everything is going to go. But, that application of the final ink takes some time.” KnowsFirstsArtistProcessLike YouFinalsDrawingApplicationPencilsInkLightingBeing An Artist Author:Robert Rodriguez
“There are good and bad critics like good or bad artists. A good critic says why they didn't like it. A bad critic gives it away that they don't like you as a person. I quite like that as well, because it means that I've won.” GivingWellsMeanPersonsArtistLike YouCriticsGood And Bad Author:Ricky Gervais
“I feel my job as an artist is to drive people to country radio. That's my job as a country artist. So these streaming places, especially these on-demand streaming places, where you can just push a button and hear it as many times as you want, like YouTube, any of that stuff, that's taking all the ears away from country radio.” PeopleWantFeelsCountryJobsArtistStuffLike YouDemandEarsRadioButtonsYoutubeStreamingCountry Artist Author:Garth Brooks
“So one time for my disillusioned artists, I hear ya Two times for the kid that air-guitars in the mirror Three times for the 9-to-5-in' bus ridin' dudes And four times for my dreamers, yo I'm just like you That's why I sing for my queens with their own pair of wings My brothers flyin' beside me, drama behind me Mama tried to find me, she inquired emphatically I was in the sky with all these other ghetto kids, defying gravity, uh” TwoKidsArtistThreeBehindsFourAirSkyBrotherLike YouDramaMirrorsWingsGuitarQueensMy BrotherPairsBusDreamerOne TimeGravityThree TimesFind MeMamaGhettoDisillusionedDefyingDefying GravityAir Guitar Author:Danny Denzongpa
“It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.” ThinkingWayFeelsKindArtistStyleInspireLike YouApproachPagesDrawingStuckLiberatingBogs Author:Daniel Clowes
“I didn't want to be an artist in the same place I worked. You could always have people that might feel like you would do something more for yourself.” PeopleWantFeelsMightArtistLike You Author:DJ Khaled
“Regular people don't even realize how much artists mean to them. Artists represent a lot to the average person. People listen to music all day on their iPods, so as artists, we become a real fixture in people's lives. As an artist, you can't take it personal. It's like your big brother teasing you.” PeopleMeanPersonsRealBigsArtistRealizingBrotherLike YouAverageListening To MusicTeaseIpodsAverage PersonFixture Author:Nicki Minaj
“When you have the catalog of work, it doesn't feel like you've got one shot to get it right; it's just like, you're making a new document of something at the present time, and it's a living thing, and it changes. It's been cool to help other people make their records, to produce. You get a crash course in things that you don't get as the artist.” PeopleFeelsHelpingArtistCoursesRecordsProduceLike YouShotsHelping OthersWorking ItCrashDocumentsLiving ThingsPresent Time Author:Blake Mills
“Con artists are using Obamacare confusion to sign people up for fake health insurance. The scammers lure victims with false promises like, 'If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan.' The scammers will tell you that, so you have to be careful.” PeopleIfsArtistPlansLike YouPromiseVictimCarefulConfusionFakeBe CarefulHealthcareObamacareLureFalse PromisesCon Artist Author:Jay Leno
“I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsHumansPersonsLyingArtistLike YouTruthfulHuman ExperienceBetter PersonBeing TruthfulLiving A Lie Author:Diane Guerrero
“We [me and my husband] both had our things. Seth was the artist, I was the singer. We were like "You do your thing, I'll do my thing and never the two shall meet." I think we had a healthy competition going through our childhood. But I sort of left the funny stuff to him, I said "You're the comedian, you're the jokester, you do that I'll be the more serious one." You need that kind of balance in the family.” ThinkingNeedsKindSaidTwoArtistLeftStuffChildhoodSeriousLike YouBalanceHealthyHusbandOur ChildrenCompetitionSingersComedianMy HusbandFunny StuffHealthy Competition Author:Rachael MacFarlane
“I think that watching artists, soulful artists, they get into it. It's always the way I perform, so when I'm on stage I just try to get into it - I'm in my own world. That's the whole thing about the stage, it's like a sacred place. They're [the audience] watching into the different world, right, so it's like you see performers and they're in the same room, so it's a different vibe. Sometimes it's great, but I try to separate it, you know, I wanna separate it 'cos otherwise I feel naked. It just feels natural.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWayFeelsTryingDifferentSometimesWholeArtistNaturalMy OwnRoomsAudienceStageLike YouSacredNakedPerformersDifferent WorldsSoulfulMy Own WorldSacred Places Author:Justin Nozuka
“When I started acting, I had a really strong discipline of knowing that you had to be on time, knowing that you had to work 12 to 16 hours a day, knowing you had to be prepared, knowing you had to be ready, and it's very interesting because if you're an artist and you're creating, you can work very, very long hours but as you're putting out that love of creation, it's almost like you're charged by it, you're charged by the process of it.” IfsLongArtistStrongProcessHoursInterestingActingKnowingCreationReadyLike YouDisciplineCreatingPreparedBe PreparedVery InterestingLong Hours Author:Jaime King
“It always felt like you were trying too hard to look like the audience or something. That whole thing about the artistic integrity, which, of course, I've never bought into - with any artist. It's just not a real thing.” TryingLooksRealHardWholeArtistCoursesFeltAudienceLike YouIntegrityArtisticReal ThingsTrying Too HardArtistic Integrity Author:David Bowie
“I feel a lot of cities are like, you go and you are trying to do your art, and there are so many other artists there who are so brilliant. And it's kind of like they stomp on the scene, and they are like, "You're not already Picasso? Get the hell out of here!" And Memphis is like, "Well, you'll get there one day!"” FeelsTryingWellsKindArtArtistCitiesHellLike YouSceneOne DayBrilliantMemphis Author:Valerie June
“A lot of people found themselves working at the Factory and some even in his bed as a result of random occurrences like your call. Most famous artists have never been all that interested in meeting strangers. That was not the case with Andy Warhol at all.” PeopleArtistFoundResultsCasesLike YouBedMeetingsStrangerFactoriesFamous ArtistWarhol Author:Bob Colacello
“It's a social media time, where you have YouTube and everything it's kind of like you see my career grow up on camera. But a lot of the things that you would see from artists would be behind the scenes that nobody would know about before, now it's all on display.” KnowsKindWould BeArtistSocialGrowsBehindsCareersGrowing UpMediaLike YouSceneCamerasSocial MediaDisplayYoutubeBehind The Scenes Author:Young De
“If you're not an actor, or if you're any other kind of artist, there's this sense that, "I must express this thing." Why make a painting if you don't feel like you have to for something inside of yourself? Why make a song if you don't feel like you have to because there's something that you need to get out? And when you're an actor and you're not performing text that you've written, I think there's this bizarre disconnect with the must-ness of it.” IfsThinkingNeedsFeelsKindArtistSongActorsWrittenPaintingLike YouPerformingBizarre Author:Lola Kirke
“I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.” PeopleIfsThinkingNeedsMeanArtistSuccessfulDesignLike YouDirtyDirty WordsSuccessful Artists Author:Phil Collins
“For artists like me, I think the times that just say the 80's alone, you didn't have to worry about getting twenty-five thousand Facebook followers. You didn't have to worry about every club, every venue you play, where the venues say well you know can you put up this video, put up that Facebook, put up... Nowadays it's really like you just can't be a musician alone.” ThinkingKnowsWellsPlayArtistWorryFiveLike YouThousandMusicianTwentiesClubsVideoLike MeFollowersTwenty FiveVenuesReally Like You Author:Joe Louis Walker
“You really, really feel like you have no control [participating in franchise] . I mean, it's a huge juggernaut, especially when something becomes part of the cultural landscape in a way as well. It's really scary because you get trapped and you get scared of changing, which is the worst thing that can happen if you want to be any kind of artist.” IfsWayWantFeelsWellsKindMeanHappensArtistWorstHugeLike YouScaredScaryLandscapeTrappedWorst ThingsParticipatingReally ScaryJuggernaut Author:Robert Pattinson
“Every artist, true artist, struggles with an overwhelming sense of feeling like you're not worthy.” FeelingsArtistStruggleLike YouWorthyOverwhelmingTrue ArtistsNot Worthy Author:Viola Davis
“People drink to numb the pain and suffering. I think it's the pain and suffering that drive you to become an artist. The art itself should be the pain, sort of exorcising every demon and making you feel like you're a person that matters.” PeopleThinkingFeelsShouldPersonsArtMatterPainArtistSufferingLike YouDrinkDemonNumbPain And Suffering Author:Marilyn Manson
“Learning how to shine a pair of shoes to me was like if you could do, you were like you were on your way to having abilities and skills as to be able to spit-shine a pair of shoes like they're patent leather. You're a bad dude. To spit-shine a pair of shoes. So, even to that small detail, that aided me and assisted me in becoming the artist that I am. My uncles' sense of style, their type of ties they used. The way they wore their suits, big and huge and baggy. The way they did their haircuts with the side burns. All of that.” ArtistAbilityStyleLike YouShiningHaircuts Author:Willie Herron
“I just really care about what people see. I want them to know that I'm working hard for this. The artists that I look up to like, you know, Michael, Prince, James Brown. You watch them and you understand that they're paying attention to the details of their art. And they care so much about what they're wearing, about how they're moving, about how they're making the audience feel. They're not phoning it in. They're going up there to murder anybody that performs after them or performs before them. That's what I've watched my whole life and admired.” PeopleArtCareMovingArtistAttentionAudienceLike YouMurderWhole LifePay AttentionLook Up Author:Bruno Mars
“Hopefully this is going to be a trend, the beginning of a movement to reclaim theater for the artist and not commerce. I think there's a level of fatigue. Artists are tired of having to create work that's then coopted by commercial demands. When you begin souping up the car, the car no longer feels like your own.” ThinkingArtistCarLike YouTiredHopefullyFatigue Author:Lynn Nottage
“I've met so many amazing fans in the couple of weeks since the release of my second album, and everyone keeps telling me they feel so connected to the record. I think as an artist, all you really want out of your album is to feel like you're not alone.Because you wrote it for a reason. You wrote it because you're feeling some kind of emotion that you had to get out in the world. And if fans say, "that makes me feel like I'm not alone", then you get to say back to them, "Well, you telling me that makes me feel like I'm not alone either".” ThinkingWorldKindReasonFeelingsArtistEmotionWeekLike YouCoupleNot Alone Author:Halsey