Quotes About Artist

The freedom of every artist is essential.

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

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Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

God is both a scientist and an artist.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.

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Interestingly, in this case the artist comes a distinct third, showing how less famous artists can be sidelined as other preoccupations in the writing of art history come to the fore.

In this painting the artist has become more dominant than his subjects

I've never viewed myself as 'just' a musician or singer.

It is not an aesthetic misstep to make the viewer aware of the paint and the painter's hand. Such an empathetic awareness lies at the heart of aesthetic appreciation.

I don't often go to curator or artist walk-throughs of exhibitions. For a critic, it feels like cheating. I want to see shows with my own eyes, making my own mistakes, viewing exhibitions the way most of their audience sees them.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

This I realized very late, that villain remains villain and are never able to become artists. We are never counted as actors and always addressed as villains.

The whole point of an album is to understand the artist and enjoy the music - it's supposed to make you want to go to a concert to see them in the flesh and get the album on vinyl and be a part of everything. That's what I'm about.

I'm from a very violent city. I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana, and it's good to see me be able to express my art, have a good opportunity for my life, make history and say something, without being violent.

Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

I rap, and I work with this dude named Chemist, who lives in Virginia. He's my go-to producer and does a lot of my own music - he's on my 'Rich Black American' mixtape.

I'm releasing more music as Virtual Self, I'm definitely going to be touring Virtual Self.

I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist. It comes out of that Symbolist idea, back to Rimbaud and all that disordering of the senses and all of that being some exalted state. When I've been that way, I've always been less exalted than I would have liked.