I started out as musician and recording artist but quite soon started to do my own videos. One thing led to another, and soon I was making videos for a living.
Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'
It's an artist's duty to reflect the times in which we live.
My thing is to get people out of the stigma of what a reggae artist should be like.
After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.
I wanted to become an artist because it meant endless possibilities. Art was a way of reinventing myself.
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
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.
I developed 'Power: From the Mouths of the Occupied' while I was an Artist in Residence at Kalamazoo College.
I'm not going to restrict myself as an artist.
Any creation of art is conceived and born under influences, amidst the atmosphere of reverie and the most customary volition of the artist. It is there, in any case, that his work arises from.
I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.
The impact of a conscious artist is necessary, and it ripples through the world.
I'm not just a hip-hop artist; I feel like I'm a rock star.
Being an artist is in part an act of rupture.
I was a scam artist in high school for a while.
Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'
I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.
