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However, the radio and national media depend much more on the hype from a good record label, and from a ' buzz ' about a band, then from just one or two good shows. There are a lot of artists that have a ton of good press going for them, and still do not make it big in the US.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

The history of modern art is also the history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.

Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.

Great artists suffer for the people.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

For hundreds of years people have talked about artists having inspiration, but often, some persons would say, write us a symphony or write us a song, on commission. The artists would come up with a masterpiece without waiting to have their muse inspire them.

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist.

An artist can go paint, and a writer can go write, but an actor needs to get hired, needs somebody to say, 'Here, come and do this,' That's the hard part.

The real artist has no idea that he is sacrificing himself for art. He does what he does for one reason and one reason only-he can't help doing it.

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works.

Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

I am an artist, art has no color and no sex.