All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
I think that every artist - or anybody that's in business - could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.
I think it's very important for hip-hop, when an artist reaches a certain level, to ascend to executive work.
I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.
My biggest love is still planets and stars. If I hadn't become an artist, I'd be an astronomer because I still love it so much.
Dad was a world-famous astronomer; Mom was the artist who drew the iconic Pioneer plaque.
Every artist that I got with me is really from the hood and really from Atlanta and really in the streets of Atlanta. Lotto Savage, Mookie Madri Gra, Freaky D$MG, that who I bring with me; that's all sides of Atlanta.
What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?
Albums serve as paragraphs in an artist's autobiography.
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
There have been several occasions during the course of Fleetwood Mac over the years where we've had to undermine whatever the business axioms might be to sort of keep aspiring as an artist in the long term, and the 'Tusk' album was one of those times.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not an artist, but if you bake the bread in the gallery, you're an artist. So the context makes the difference.
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist.
If you're an original thinker, you are going get told 'no' a lot, and you have to be able to hear 'no' many times from the bankers and trust that at some point, someone is going to recognize that you are an artist and not a can of soda.
No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
Is an artist much more than a beggar?