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As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

As rich as you think some of us are, for every $18.99 CD you buy, the artist usually sees a toonie or so. Pay your producer out of that. Then your manager. Then split it five ways among your band mates. Now don't act surprised when you see the drummer of a platinum-selling Canadian rock band behind the drive- thru window at Tim Hortons

As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal.

As struggles go, being an artist isn't that much of one.

Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.

As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.

As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.

As the centuries unfold, millions of artists will live on the moon and paint the moon and Mars as we go out into the universe.

As the beautiful does not exist for the artist and poet alone—though these can find in it more poignant depths of meaning than other men—so the world of Reality exists for all; and all may participate in it, unite with it, according to their measure and to the strength and purity of their desire.

As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

As the times are changing, you don't hear as many sample issues with rap artists. Part of that has to do with production styles these days, but the nature of copyright is also changing as the internet becomes more of a giant.

As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness.

A successful artist is inspired by his muse, and his muse is inspired by the payment of a commission.

A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

As with any true artist, change is the only constant.

At any rate, when I began photographing myself, I could place myself in poses that had not been investigated by other artists. It was an area other artists hadn't touched. Then, I went on from there. I manipulated my image - distorting it, brutalizing it. People thought I was mad, but I felt I had to tell these things. It gave me a kind of excitement.

At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.

At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.

At first you're doing it for yourself, it's about what sounds good to you. It's about expressing yourself. Then you get comfortable as an artist and you find yourself and people get familiar.

At home in the states, I think there's a tendency in the states to go for the latest, greatest thing. The latest, greatest is the latest greatest. I think when you're talking about France, England, things like that, they look for the history of an artist and they go back when it comes to music like this anyway. They will go back a little bit further. I think the United States is very knowledgeable and it's a good place to play.

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

A time comes, after years in the trenches, when the artist begins to fathom what his career has looked like so far and what it will look like if he continues as he's proceeded.

At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

At my second record label, they told me and other female artists that some of us were going on the chopping block. I was 19... and it was devastating.

A true artist could and should create till the day they die. You don't ever fail as an artist until you quit being an artist.

A true artist, in my mind, is willing to fail sometimes, because if you're not brave enough to say yes and follow your gut, it's never going to be good.

A true artist never portrays to please, but to show.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

A true artist does not depend on radio for success. A true fan does not let radio determine what they support

A true artist is an ugly man.

A true artist should have no secrets. On the stage, you must be able to transmit every emotion to the spectator.

A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.

A true artist is someone who gives birth to a new reality.

A true priest is aware of the presence of the altar during every moment that he is conducting a service. It is exactly the same way that a true artist should react to the stage all the time he is in the theater. An actor who is incapable of this feeling will never be a true artist.

A truly great artist has many talents.

At some future time I shall see New York the artist's ground. I think you will create an American School.

At the core, I am an actress. And I think, in a way, that's a good thing in that I am, I think, empathetic and sympathetic to the film. I would never pretend to have the discerning and acute critical eye that a lot of the great critics in our business do have. I don't look at it as being a critic or placing a judgment on a film, and I do think, how do you decide which film is best anyway? It's always a little bit of a mixed bag. But, I think it is just a collective group of people coming together to honor the work of an artist - that's how I think of it.

At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.

At the moment, I have it planned as a six or seven year experiment, but the books will only ever appear in bursts like this every couple of years and only with the best quality artists.

At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.