Quotes About Artist

I'm confident when I perform but going into a horrible, boring studio and playing the same thing over and over again is really different to being on stage!

I general don't color my stuff - I'm pretty horrible with color. Usually, I'll get one of my cartoonist friends to help me out.

I've always been a cabaret-vaudeville artist - an hourlong cabaret and a floor show in a hotel - somebody like that. That's my main forte.

Gilbert Hotel' is my first all-acoustic record.

Before I was a musician, I drew. The housing projects in Brooklyn weren't much of a canvas, people didn't know that I had it in me - but I actually went to an art and design high school.

The way it works is the manager's sort of, you know, is like the hub of an artist's career.

I'm a huge fan of Ace of Base. 'The Sign?' I love that song.

I think confidence is the most appealing quality in any human being or any artist; that's what really attracts us to people.

As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.

For screenwriting, when you're writing, you're talking to hundreds - hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you're saying. When you're writing a comic book, you're really only talking to the artist.

Rapacity plus taste is a formidable combination, since it so often passes for intelligence. One pities the artist in a world of such predators, all of whom are deeply engaged in the arts too.

St. Martin's Press, whose erudition, urbanity, and love for the world of the word are an artist's inspiration.

In Japan, after having lost World War II, the hierarchy that used to exist in the society, from the rich to the poor, has been flattened, especially by the winners, by Americans. As a Japanese artist debuting in America, I really had to bring that kind of theme into the work.

I really love New York, and I've lived here for a long time. I know not just the different neighborhoods but the different kind of class cultures in New York from the up-and-coming, down-and-out kind of artist to the powerful worlds of finance.

Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.

I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.

I'm worried about being pigeonholed as an artist, especially a female one, but I think, essentially, it's the music which people judge you by.

There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.

As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.

Playing my music to fans and people enjoying it is what matters; that makes me happy as an artiste. If you start worrying about awards, you will lose your creativity.

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits.

I think fashion, mishandled, can be quite toxic. It becomes about image and the cult of celebrity. I think when an artist is seen at a lot of parties as a celebrity, I find that worrying. I think it can limit them.

America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

The life of an artist is always reproving what you can do, and I feel like there is still so much more to do. Because I still enjoy it, and I'm not one of those actors who feels like, 'Oh, I've arrived and you should worship at my altar,' kind of thing.