An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models. . . be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.
All artists get better with age. The more you draw, the better you're going to get.
Artists instinctively want to reflect humanity, their own and each other's, in all its intermittent virtue and vitality, frailty and fallibility.
When we are artists, researchers, or writers, we choose what we do with our time, who we talk to. Of course we have commitments, but the amount of freedom we have with what to do or what to research is humongous compared to others.
A musicians or artists responsibility is a simple one, and that is, through your music to tell the truth.
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
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.
There's something peculiar about artists. They have ups and downs. . . After a while everything you do is just wonderful. . . then you slide back. If you're a good artist you're going to go down. And then it's up to you.
For artists it's a lot easier to make art in bad times than it is in good times. When you've got no money it's easy to just drink your way through it and make great art. But if you're making lots of money it can be very problematic.
All artists are two-headed calves.
The eye is the best of artists.
I get inspired by a lot, not jut one type of music or so. I listen to a lot of different music, and love a lot of artists. So, I can get inspired by anything.
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.
The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.
There's a number of hip-hop artists who are highly talented but politically retrograde.
Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.
Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something persists, something that is always Superman.
I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
I think artists are going to express things from an emotional point of view, that's their job, to suggest and interpret, and report what they witness. That's their job as artists, you're looking for the rub, where's the rub, you're a storyteller, you're looking for the rub, not necessarily the solutions, or you're not necessarily educated, you're not the winner of a debate contest, a national debate contest, you're not necessarily a person who has a doctorate in anything.
And I'm not even just talking artists, every single person in this nation has the right to be themselves, live life go team go. I love you Canada, thank you so much.