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What I definitely learnt from Michael Jackson is that simple is almost always better. As a songwriter, as an artist period. — Ne-Yo

A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist. — Norman Ralph Augustine

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness. — Henry Miller

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create. — Jimmy Page

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for. — Daryl Hall

Music is cyclical and as an artist and songwriter, you need to be able to predict what trend is coming next. — Wendy Starland

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

A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words. — Debasish Mridha

I am a victim. To be an artist is to be a victim, because if you don't do what you want to do you die. That is the reality. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

There's been this steady metamorphosis from just surviving to being a craftsman and, ultimately, the hope is to be an artist in what you do.? — R.A. Dickey

The unconscious of an artist is her greatest treasure. It is what transmutes the dross of autobiography into the gold of myth. — Erica Jong

Limitations force you to find the essence of what you want to say, which is one of the most important things to know for an artist. — Julie Taymor

It is not what an artist does that counts ... but what he is. — Pablo Picasso

Ne thing you have to develop as an artist is a confidence in what you're doing and that you're right about it. — Robert Barry

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?' — Freeman Patterson

An artist's responsibility is simple: to say through his art what can't be said any other way. — Marty Rubin

An artist's job is to articulate what might otherwise be incoherent. — Nancy Spero

What I say is misdirection, what you see is an illusion and what results is magic. — Amit Kalantri

An artist doesn't really create anything - he just rearranges what is already there. — Paramahansa Yogananda

To me, what makes an artist is a unique personality that they're not afraid to let show. — Blake Shelton

Everybody is looking for a hit single but what the artists really need is an executive producer to help put better albums out. — Rahki

If what makes a person an artist is their work, they should be admired; if what makes a person an artist is themselves, they should be adored. — Gregor Collins

I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art. — Rhys Ifans

An artist does not have to think about what he is doing. — Irving Stone

You will never know all there is to know. You will learn until your final days. Then you will inspire someone else. This is what an artist does. — Mitch Albom

I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing. — Junot Diaz

What drives me is to still feel creative and like I'm pushing myself as an artist. — JC Chasez

What I say to an artist is, 'When you can't paint - paint. — Joyce Cary

An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject — Frank Wynne

One criticizes in others what one recognizes and despises in oneself. For example, an artist who is revolted by another's ambitiousness. — Susan Sontag

When one is an artist, what else can he be? — Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist. — Sean Lennon

The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth. — Dean Koontz

I'm an artist who is always looking for what is possible. I'm always looking to extend the boundaries. — Ai Weiwei

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow. — Claire Bloom

The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do. — Matthew Quick

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work. — David Hockney

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist. — Eric Fischl

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift. — Chuck Palahniuk

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do. — James Vincent McMorrow

An artist that makes art merely to meet a demand is a slave to what his patrons wants to see, or, hear. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The practise of an art is essential to the whole man, not because of what art is but because of what art does to the artist. — John Fowles

The purpose of art is to give the traveling human race an improved map that shows the way to itself. If art isn't for *that*, what is it for? — William, Saroyan

When an artist paints a flower, she borrows the beauty from nature and adds fragrance from her own heart. — Debasish Mridha

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It ... keeps us honest. — Lupita Nyong'o

As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes. — Richard Rogers

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? — William Morris

When I met Steve Kaufman, I thought he was Gene Simmons, but what an artist talent he is. He will be an art force in the art world to deal with. — Roy Lichtenstein

A painter is a man who paints what he sells; an artist, on the other hand, is a man who sells what he paints. — Pablo Picasso

The scientist and the artist are both passionate about their exploration. What leads to my work is that I'm equally an artist and an engineer. — Arthur Ganson

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. — Elia Kazan

Being an artist is a way of saying, I am here, and this is what I stand for. — Jodie Foster

I don't believe in censorship, but I do believe that an artist has to take some moral responsibility for what he or she is putting out there. — Tom Petty

Basically, an artist should be a mirror, or a reflection of society or his or her environment. What you see is what you can articulate. — Al Jourgensen

Being an artist is not only what you do, but how you live your life. — Ben Shahn

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience. — David Bowie

If I were an opera singer, Id have sung you an aria. If I were an artist, I would have painted your portrait. But cooking is what I'm best at. — Lisa Kleypas

Being an artist is nothing, or at least, not enough; what you want is to be a poet. — Luc Delahaye

What the artist must render is a living moment somehow, a living moment actually in action or an inward experience. — Joseph Campbell

But that's what being an artist is - feeling crummy before everyone else feels crummy. — The New Yorker

This impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist. If — Amanda Palmer

As to what I would like to be, it is difficult to say. An artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. — Jackson Pollock

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be — Abraham H. Maslow

I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me. — Ralph Steadman

The impulse to connect the dots - and to share what you've connected - is the urge that makes you an artist — Amanda Palmer

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color. — Marc Chagall

Let me point out, if it has escaped your notice, that what an artist does, is fail. — Donald Barthelme

To be an artist - actually, to be a human being in these times - it's all difficult. ... What matters is to know what you want and pursue it. — Patti Smith

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see. — Edith Sitwell

The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love. — Taylor Swift

You never know what an artist is going to create next. — Kesha

An artist does his most difficult work when he steps back from the blank canvas and thinks about what he is going to create. — Michelangelo

It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself. — E. J. Hughes

The price an artist pays for doing what he wants is that he has to do it. — William S. Burroughs

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos. — Henry Miller

I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I feel is good, and people like it. — Fetty Wap

And what is any artist, really, but someone who doesn't mind being an asshole? — Jade Chang