Quotes About Artist

My supernatural gift might reside not in my mind instead in my heart. The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvass a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.

AN ARTIST IS A MATHEMATICIAN WHO KNOWS THE FORMULAS OF THE SOUL

The island, purchased as the artist's retreat, in time became his sanctuary from ridicule and humiliation.

He pulled himself gently from my grasp without answering and stood back, suddenly a figure from another time, seen in relief upon a background of hazy hills, the life in his face a trick of the shadowing rock, as if flattened beneath layers of paint, an artist's reminiscence of forgotten places and passions turned to dust.

I find being an adult very difficult. Being an adult artist, Asian American, incredibly difficult. Or trying, anyway.

I definitely feel like I'm more of an artist than an athlete. But I'm good at both.

I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where I went to college. I have so many great friends that live there. It's where I discovered that I wanted to be an artist.

I used Atlantic like I was supposed to.

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

Well, the first Australian tour I literally just took busking to the stage.

You can usually tell when people aren't being authentic, but that goes for every artist, not just white artists.

TLC was so real and authentic. And that's music as a whole. When it's an artist, and it comes from the heart, and that's really who you are, the fans attach to that.

I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is.

In 1975 I had the award for the top male artist, the award for top single, the award for top album.

From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.

I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.

I'm a theatre doll, and I've always - since I'm out of school - have always been on stage.

I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.

Actually, yeah, I am an artist. I draw.

I always thought I was going to be an artist. All I ever did was draw. I only ever turned to writing because I couldn't find somebody to write the kind of stuff I wanted to do. That just spiraled out of control.

I'm only the third artist who's ever drawn at Gitmo.

I dreamed of being an artist.

I definitely want to be a country artist. I want to make it very clear that I want to stay in our genre. I dreamt of being a country artist, and I want to continue to be a purist for that.

I think The Weeknd is an incredible melodically driven artist. People often say to me that he sounds a lot like what I do, and I'm sure that the influence is there. But he's not me, nor is he trying to be me.