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I'm not a manufactured artist. Nobody taught me how to be a proper artist.
ASAP Ferg
Me
Proper
Nobody
How
Artist
Taught
I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
Aaron Carter
Consumers
Real
Real Artist
Artist
Real Thing
Want
Them
Thing
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
Aasif Mandvi
You
Job
Face
Mirror
Give
Point
Take
Simply
Answers
Any
Artist
Front
Hold
Your
I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
Abigail Washburn
Best
Sense
Doors
Think
Finally
Intuitively
Something
General
General Sense
Idea
Opening
Supposed
Mission
Know
Doing
End
Artist
Influencing
In The End
Skills
Use
Keep
Consented
The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
Adam Ferguson
Work
Finds
More
Perfect
He
Part
Attention
Particular
Greater
Quantities
His
Hands
Any
Artist
Confine
Productions
Grow
'Brand-Dropping' is the term that the Kluger Agency coined to describe discreetly advertising by product mentioning in song, and we feel we can make this the way of the future without jeopardizing any artist's creative outlet or typical style.
Adam Kluger
Future
Creative
Song
Style
Typical
Way
Outlet
Feel
Term
Advertising
Make
Without
Discreetly
Any
Artist
Agency
Product
Creative Outlet
Describe
By-Product
I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really create that much of a hierarchy in my mind.
Adam Schlesinger
Mind
Solo
Solo Artist
Hierarchy
Never
Had
Person
Artist
Front
Create
Much
Really
Desire
Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.
Adam Schlesinger
Best
You
Ego
Job
Focus
Think
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Highlight
Putting
Also
Qualities
Make
Without
Artist
Front
Want
Them
Producer
Really
Your
Suggestions
I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.
Adele
Love
Me
People
Nurture
Other
Write
No-One
Songs
New
Talent
Always
Manager
Artist
Wants
I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.
Adele
Remember
Become
See
Feels
Like
Because
Am
Go
Artist
Want
Anymore
Fan
Again
Things
Music reflects an artist's feelings and their experiences.
Adnan Sami
Music
Feelings
Reflects
Artist
Experiences
People all over the world know me as an Indian artist. I could have chosen any other country and wouldn't have had to go through problems claiming my citizenship. But it is India where my heart is and has always been.
Adnan Sami
Me
Heart
People
World
Problems
Country
Other
Claiming
Citizenship
India
Indian
Could
Through
Had
Over
Know
Always
Go
Been
Any
Artist
Any Other Country
Where
Chosen
I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.
Adrian Tomine
Myself
Writing
Possible
About
Invisible
Between
Artist
Wanted
Who
Differentiate
To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.
Adrian Tomine
Me
Would
Would-Be
Perfectly
Invisible
Up
Artist
Honest
As a freelance artist, you have to please somebody instead of just making music. But when the employer trusts and leans on you to determine what is right for a scene or feeling, that's ideal.
Adrian Younge
Music
You
Somebody
Feeling
Freelance
Please
Determine
Scene
Instead
Ideal
Employer
Making
Trusts
Artist
Just
Right
Any material may be used but the theme is the same and the response is the same for all artwork... we all have the same concern, but the artist must know exactly what the experience is. He must pursue the truth relentlessly.
Agnes Martin
Truth
Experience
Relentlessly
Response
Must
Exactly
Exactly What
Pursue
He
Know
Concern
Material
Same
Any
Artist
May
Artwork
Theme
Used
Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.
Agnes Varda
Tool
Hands
Artist
Painter
When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
Ahmet Ertegun
First
Sold
Charles
Small
Records
He
Bought
Ray
Ray Charles
California
His
Heard
Contract
Label
Any
Artist
Flop
To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
Ai Weiwei
Rights
People
Part
Remind
Protect
Artist
Essential
Lacking
Wanted
Central
China
Many
Expression
Activity
Right
People are always wondering if I am an artist or political activist or politician. Maybe I'll just clearly tell you: Whatever I do is not art. Let's say it is just objects or materials, movies or writing, but not art, OK?
Ai Weiwei
Art
You
People
Writing
Political
Whatever
Politician
Say
OK
Tell
Objects
Clearly
Always
Am
Materials
Wondering
Artist
Maybe
Just
Movies
Activist
Kendrick Lamar is a phenomenal artist whose work has served as a catalyst to raise a new level of consciousness for this generation. His message challenges the status quo and motivates listeners to rethink our society's institutions.
Aja Brown
Work
Challenges
Generation
Society
This Generation
Our
Status
Status Quo
Catalyst
Rethink
New
Institutions
Message
New Level
Motivates
His
Artist
Listeners
Quo
Whose
Served
Level
Consciousness
Raise
Phenomenal
I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce - I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.
Aja Naomi King
Think
Direct
Write
Artist
Want
Produce
Inhabit
Means
Fully
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
Alan Alda
Work
You
Otherwise
Ring
About
Writer
True
Personal
Artist
Use
Your
Actor
If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences.
Alan Menken
You
Yourself
Writing
Own
Always
Artist
Experiences
Your
Pulling
Howard Ashman was an amazing lyricist and an amazing artist.
Alan Menken
Amazing
Lyricist
Artist
If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
Alan Moore
Would
Would-Be
Knew
Audience
Artist
Wanted
Then
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