I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I’m writing about. – Adrian Tomine
I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good. – Barbra Streisand
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately. – Aaron Johnson
Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. – Alma Gluck
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. – Charles Baudelaire
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist. – Alfred Sisley
I’ve always had the idea that multi-millionaire rock stars should work harder than anyone because they have the ability to do it. Look at an artist like Andy Warhol. He never stopped working, even after he didn’t need to work again. – Buzz Osborne
I completely take on the risk, the poker game, which being an artist means, and I’m going to try to make a film which honestly reflects what I have in my head. – Antonio Banderas
It is one of the most validating things for an artist like me, to have people sing along to your songs. – Blake Shelton
For us Africans, literature must serve a purpose: to expose, embarrass, and fight corruption and authoritarianism. It is understandable why the African artist is utilitarian. – Ama Ata Aidoo
An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist. – Arthur Smith
Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I’m able to do what I want without anybody thinking it’s dumb. – Amy Lee
The artist is something of an outsider in America. I have always felt that America does not value its artists, certainly not in the sense that the Europeans do. – Carlisle Floyd
You get the feeling that on a lot of days the audience for most music would kind of rather not be faced with the artist, especially because we’ve been educated to think that the artist are these special creatures are otherwordly and aren’t like us. – Amanda Palmer
Here in England, everyone’s a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist. – Amy Winehouse
I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce – I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist. – Aja Naomi King
The feeling of an evolution is a constant for every artist who is pursuing the search of refinement and enlargement of his/her own means of expression. – Andrea Bocelli
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. – Charles Baudelaire
That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn’t become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do. – Amy Tan
It’s not for me to determine what a country artist has in common with a hip-hop artist. You go for those with long-lasting careers. And that’s what I’ve had as my target all my life. – Clive Davis
One of my goals is to find an unsigned YouTube artist and feature them on my album. That’s what I wished someone would’ve done for me. – Charlie Puth
I spent a lot of time on my own working out the physical vocabulary for how Gollum moved. As I say, I drew on a lot of Tolkein’s descriptions of how he moves, but also the conceptual artist sketches. – Andy Serkis
