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Exploiting yourself sexually is not a good look. I don't find it encouraging...I just stand there and sing. I'm not worried that I'm a 'plus size' and so much bigger than other artists. No matter what you look like the key is to be happy with yourself.Collection: Artist
My life had been defined by the apartheid years. Now we were going into an era of democracy... and I believed that I didn't have really a function as an artist, as a useful artist, in that anymore.Collection: Artist
The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.Collection: Artist
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.Collection: Artist
A great artist has a unique vision...obsession. They are someone willing to fail flamboyantly.Collection: Artist
To restrict the artist is a crime. It is to murder germinating lifeCollection: Artist
There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.Collection: Artist
Most artists look for something fresh to paint; frankly I find that quite boring. For me it is much more exciting to find fresh meaning in something familiar.Collection: Artist
The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.Collection: Artist
It's a shock for me to go through and see all those years of painting my life, which is very personal for me. It's a very difficult thing for an artist to look back at his work.Collection: Artist
Artists are often the barometers of society.Collection: Artist
Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization’s anchor. We are the compass for humanity’s conscience.Collection: Artist
In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.Collection: Artist
So every artist and would-be artist makes this same phrase: 'I knew, I never got it said.Collection: Artist
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.Collection: Artist
There's a lot of madness going on out there. Artists can only be what they are, but the industry only goes with what they think people wanna hear.Collection: Artist
Dancing is surely the most basic and relevant of all forms of expression. Nothing else can so effectively give outward form to an inner experience. Poetry and music exist in time. Painting and architecture are a part of space. But only the dance lives at once in both space and time. In it the creator and the thing created, the artist and the expression, are one. Each participates completely in the other. There could be no better metaphor for an understanding of the mechanics of the cosmos.Collection: Artist
Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.Collection: Artist
I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.Collection: Artist
We are chained hand and foot by protocol, enslaved to a static, empty world where men and women can’t read, where the scientific advances of the ages are the preserve of the rich, where artists and poets are doomed to endless repetitions and sterile reworking of past masterpieces. Nothing is new. New does not exist. Nothing changes, nothing grows, evolves, develops. Time has stopped. Progress is forbiddenCollection: Artist
Cartooning is an honorable thingCollection: Artist
So I look at a lot of stuff now that I did and some of it looks tame to me, but my interest in terms of what I want to say with it is a little differentCollection: Artist
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the StatesCollection: Artist
Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce somethingCollection: Artist
So much of Jaws was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.Collection: Artist
So there's kind of a simultaneous aspect to pushing the boundaries, and being very safeCollection: Artist
I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuffCollection: Artist
Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evidentCollection: Artist
Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respectsCollection: Artist
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to sayCollection: Artist
And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the clientCollection: Artist
It's interesting, because in the corporate stuff there's a dichotomy there, depending on the creator. Even what, in essence, may be a very safe corporate approach, there is some stuff that is allowed to be pushedCollection: Artist
[Abbas Kiarostami] is a great artist and a poet. I sometimes think that if Samuel Beckett made films, he'd make them like Kiarostami makes them.Collection: Artist
Nothing is more subtly destructive than a closed circle of artists feeding on one another. Envy grows from insignificant differences between people, not from overwhelming inequalities... it was envy that forced them to emulate each other, not esteem.Collection: Artist
A comic script is basically a love letter from you to your artist.Collection: Artist
If a good editor will let me tell my story with the right artist, I'm happy.Collection: Artist
The bad artists imitate, the great artists steal.Collection: Artist
Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.Collection: Artist
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.Collection: Artist
On a small planet, where minute follows minute, day follows day, year follows year, where tradition marches on with a deafening, orderly beat -sometimes the order is disturbed by a dreamer, an artist, a scribbler - sometimes the beat is changed one person at a time.Collection: Artist
The artist who really loves people loves them so well the way they are he sees no need to disguise their characteristics-he loves them whole, without retouching. Yet the word used for this unqualifying affection is 'cynicism'.Collection: Artist
An artist can respect the backfield of fact before which every human being stands and choose not to address those facts.Collection: Artist
The fundamental purpose of the artist is the same as that of a scientist: to state a fact.Collection: Artist
I had the naive, simplistic idea that producers and writers and artists of the time helped in a minuscule way to change the mind-set of America.Collection: Artist
There are a lot of young artists that are dope.Collection: Artist
The only thing you can do as an artist is to come to the world, see what no one is doing, and leave behind one or two things that wouldn’t have happened without you.Collection: Artist
If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.Collection: Artist
Shame on those artists who aren't proud of their achievements.Collection: Artist
The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn'tCollection: Artist
Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.Collection: Artist