Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece.
Now, [hip-hopgrime artists] Stormzy, Skepta, or the Section Boyz have to be validated by Drake, Rihanna or Beyoncé. They're rolled into this one urban culture bubble; it's not really to do with, "I'm specifically f - ked off about my country and what's going on in my town. " We're very much only showing success to artists who impress American artists, and I'm one of them.
Re-creative artists are investigators.
I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running my band and touring and making posters and practicing with my band and working on my vocals, but I didn't spend a large pie chart of my time sifting through criticism as well, and nowadays I do, and all female artists do, because to be able to promote your work, you need to live in those spaces.
Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends. . . It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
Artists also have the responsibility of reflecting the truth.
I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
Artists need not meet any standards to practice their craft. . . Virtually every other occupation requires some sort of license, union membership or something that says you are qualified.
Artists are the radical voice of civilization.
Artists who have won fame are often embarrassed by it; thus their first works are often their best.
If I were still stupider than I am, I should think myself at the apex of my career; yet I know how much I still lack, to reach perfection; I see it the more clearly now that I live only among first-rank artists and know what each one of them lacks.
A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid.
It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.
My opinion is that new needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements.
I believe artists should be able to step into other people's situations, contexts and cultures and work from there. If artists don't have that freedom, then, as someone has said, are we all writing our autobiographies?
The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of an entire wall and entire room. . . . There is no denying that one of the major attractions of these successful large compositions is their structural decorative use in the contemporary scene. . . That these large canvases can be superbly decorative may not be considered complimentary by some of the artists involved.
Even though Prince wasn't rapping and it was a whole different era, it shows how artists expressed themselves without saying too much, and that was the real beauty of the art.
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.