Quotes About Artist

There's almost nothing worse to live with than a struggling artist.

Above all, Danny Boyle's 'Slumdog Millionaire' is the work of an artist at the peak of his powers. India is his palette, and Mumbai - that teeming 'maximum city', with 19 million strivers on the make, jostling, scheming, struggling and killing for success - is his brush.

I chose 'The Voice' because I knew they had a lot more respect for each artist, as opposed to the other shows. They don't get it. I don't think those shows ever got it. I was turned off by some of the other shows and how they did things.

More often than not, the fans really gravitate towards who's on the cover as opposed to how it's drawn or how it's composed, and so, a lot of the time, what an artist likes will be very different from what a fan likes.

Art and war are opposites, so our goal as an artist is to build and create, not destroy.

I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.

In terms of the organic feel and the love for noises, I definitely feel more connected to Four Tet and Fennesz, as any dance floor artist. I do like some dancey stuff like Martyn when I DJ, but I draw my inspiration from other things.

I think my original ambition was to be an artist.

Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.

I originally just wanted to be an artist.

If I have to be considered any type of jazz artist, it would be New Orleans jazz because New Orleans jazz never forgot that jazz is dance music and jazz is fun. I'm more influenced by that style of jazz than anything else.

I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.

I grew up in adoration of writers like Hemingway, George Orwell, Anna Akhmatova, and that has always been my idea about the artist - that you have to be a brave and freedom-loving person.

I'm an artist, and I need to work, like everybody. We need to be challenged and that we're getting up and doing something with our lives.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn't want our music crossing over or being popular.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything. Songs will outlast the artist and they will go on for ever if they are good.

Music definitely gave me a focus. I was an artist without an outlet. Let's just say if I was not famous, I could have been infamous. I could've had my own episode of 'American Gangster.'

Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.

To a certain extent, just like my children, I nurture my writing until the point when it has to get out and face the outside world, where it takes on a life of its own. That is a purpose of any artist and their art.

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

You've really got to appreciate an artist that's really outspoken and feels like his music can change the world.

Every artist can actually say that, that the overseas community appreciates the culture of hip-hop more, really, rather than over here. So it's fun to perform there.

A leader of the state legislature, Virginia Peterson, opposed the path of Interstate 215 around the southeast quadrant of Salt Lake City on the grounds that it would take the land and house of a constituent who happened to be a famous local artist. The artist, Ms. Peterson claimed, depended on the particular light on the property for his painting. She was able to delay construction for a decade.