As an artist, I have to be a leader of my fans, not, like, follow them. Because if I chose to follow them, you know, they could do it. You know, it's me who's doing it.
‐‐ Talib Kweli
As an artist, I think you always have to take care of yourself as a person probably even more than the average person because your body is so important to your art.
‐‐ Josh Young
As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!
‐‐ Jessie J
As an artist, I understand that, and I value the creative input of the artist.
‐‐ Charlton Heston
As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.
‐‐ Patti Smith
As an artist, I've always felt most comfortable outside of the art supply store. So domestic materials are the ones that most help inform what I'm trying to talk about and our familiarity as a whole - kind of the collective us, I guess.
‐‐ Rashid Johnson
As an artist, I've always wanted to participate in the dialogue of art with other artists.
‐‐ Jeff Koons
As an artist, I've been very fortunate.
‐‐ Enrique Iglesias
As an artist, I want a reaction.
‐‐ Chester Bennington
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
‐‐ Ralph Bakshi
As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.
‐‐ John Van Hamersveld
As an artist in the 21st century, my two goals are to make the best work that I can, improve as much as I can, and to distribute that work as far as I can.
‐‐ Brandon Stanton
As an artist, it feels good that we've created something that is connecting with the audience, which is what we always strive to do.
‐‐ Rich Moore
As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.
‐‐ Tony Yayo
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
‐‐ Madonna Ciccone
As an artist, program directors always want to put you in a little box.
‐‐ Angie Stone
As an artist, sometimes you'd rather not do the interview. You might feel the interviewer isn't educated on you... or what you're about.
‐‐ Ali Shaheed Muhammad
As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.
‐‐ Psy
As an artist, the most important thing and the most special thing is when your intention shines through on the work.
‐‐ Jerrod Carmichael
As an artist, there's so many categories that you're put into, that there are so many things that I'm about that I've never explored as an artist on film. I don't see myself in so many characters in film.
‐‐ Carmen Ejogo
As an artist, there were different levels in my career that brought me to a realization that I am what you would call a pure artist. And I don't say that with any type of vanity.
‐‐ Heavy D
As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.
‐‐ Gretchen Parlato
As an artist you actually do have to make a choice to be an outsider. If you're an outsider you have the freedom to say what people on the inside don't dare to say.
‐‐ Connie Nielsen
As an artist, you are aware there is this strange money market out there, but you have no sense of how it works.
‐‐ Peter Doig
As an artist, you can always learn different ways to refine your look. I mean, you look at any one time in my career and you see all the hairstyles I went through. You make changes until something feels comfortable with you. And people vibe with it because they can see the difference.
‐‐ CeCe Peniston
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
‐‐ Janet Fitch
As an artist, you do understand you're never going to please everybody.
‐‐ Paul Emsley
As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.
‐‐ Michael Nesmith
As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
‐‐ Gloria Estefan
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
‐‐ Ezra Koenig
As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.
‐‐ Stephanie Sigman
As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.
‐‐ Idina Menzel
As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance.
‐‐ Kim Weston
As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
‐‐ Dwight Yoakam
As an artist, you have to work really, really hard because you gotta make something that will allow people to even take the chance to even listen to it, you know?
‐‐ Zendaya
As an artist, you need to be not at all entitled in your relation with the work. So money is kind of worrying. You can start to expect things if you're used to a certain level of comfort.
‐‐ Eleanor Catton
As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.
‐‐ Serj Tankian
As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.
‐‐ Rufus Wainwright
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
‐‐ Christian Marclay
As an artist, you're pretty sheltered backstage. You often don't know what's going on out there.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale
As an artist, you're taking your experiences and placing them into your art. So the more experiences you have, the richer your art and more people can relate to it.
‐‐ Anderson Paak
As an artist, you're thankful to get a shot at a story more than once, because it doesn't happen all the time. Whether you talk about 'Hamlet' or 'Death of a Salesman,' you always want to see what the next group of actors will do.
‐‐ Kenny Leon
As an artist, you want to do roles that challenge you and say something.
‐‐ Jussie Smollett
As an artist, you want to make good stories and create good art; as a businessman, you want to make money and make sure the investors are happy. The two will always clash, unfortunately.
‐‐ Neil Jackson
As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done before, then I'm never going to get better as an actress.
‐‐ Jurnee Smollett
As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.
‐‐ Margaret Atwood
As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.
‐‐ Frank Delaney
As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.
‐‐ Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
As an Asian-American actor, I believe it is important to never settle for the status quo. I feel a responsibility to do everything in my power to create positive perceptions of Asian Americans through my work.
‐‐ Ian Anthony Dale
As an assistant in the polytechnic department, I was able to finance new studies and got my Physics Masters Degree in 1958 and my Ph.D. in 1959.
‐‐ Francois Englert