Quotes About Artist

If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music. You just say, 'It's so and so, or it's so and so.' But with bands, everyone feels an obligation to categorize them.

It's just that as a solo artist, I have more burden and responsibilities on my shoulders.

I never wanted to be a solo artist.

The biggest challenge was the whole learning curve of being solo artist. I've been in bands for so long that being a solo artist was completely new thing.

When you're a solo artist and you're not doing well, it can be pretty tough. So when success does come, it feels like you've earned it.

I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It's absolutely different. The whole situation is very different - situations where you can't really compare, it's so very different. But I found happiness.

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to act as a buffer.

I enjoy singing but I lack the proper training to make it as a solo artist. Instead, I feel I've found my niche with acting.

Actually, the whole thing of being a solo artist has been such a learning process for me. Since I departed from my previous band, NIGHTWISH, it was the whole beginning of my career, there was stuff in the air. I had to learn so much.

I fought doing dance music as a solo artist for a long time. I always thought there was a ceiling with it.

A solution built by an artist serves the artist more than the solution the capitalist comes up with.

The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

I think that designers have an incredibly broad creative repertoire. They solve. They create images of perfection for any number of clients. I could never do that. I'm my client. That's the difference between an artist and a designer; it's a client relationship.

I'm not a politician. I don't know how to solve the problems of the world. But as an artist, I have one duty: to ask questions.

I'm not a businessman, so I don't know how to solve the problems of the recording industry.

As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.

Certain things you learn through exposure. It's really the elements which make up any artist. You really learn by example. You learn by influence. And some people have a huge impact on you, and that's how you become the artist you are.

Regardless of anything I say, some people try to take the fact that I'm an artist away from me.

I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.

I think most paintings are a record of the decisions that the artist made. I just perhaps make them a little clearer than some people have.

As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.

I'd want to direct a video for Yoko Ono. As long as I got to work with Yoko Ono someday, I'd be really happy. I just think she's such a great artist - it would just be so nice.

I am an Alanis Morissette fan. I think that she has a fantastic voice, and I would love to sing with her someday.

I always felt that a painted edge between two colors was a depiction somehow.