#artist

I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well. ↗

— Christian Bale

#about #actor #actually #always #artist

I think people who are artists, actors, singers, great songwriters, they tend to have a hyper state of emotion where they feel things very, very deeply, probably more deeply than the average person walking down the street where it may affect them, but not to the same extent. ↗

— Willie Aames

#artists #average #average person #deeply #down

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#american culture #appreciation #artists #athletes #community

Poetry is the work of poets, not of peoples or communities; artistic creation can never be anything but the production of an individual mind. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#artistic #communities #creation #individual #mind

The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives. ↗

— M. H. Abrams

#humanity #identify #long #modes #ourselves

The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so personal - because the kind of artists I like, they convince me, they totally win me over straight away in that thing. Like, 'Oh my God, this song is totally about me.' ↗

— Adele

#always #artists #away #because #being

Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process. ↗

— Gary Allan

#always #artist #away #everything #industry

I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me. ↗

— Gary Allan

#albums #anymore #artists #bothers #buys

When you're in your 20s, there's maybe a little room for you to not be at the top of your artistic game, if you look good on a magazine cover. When you're not on the cover of the magazines anymore, then you realize that the work has to be great. ↗

— Tori Amos

#artistic #cover #game #good #great

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

#certain #doing #easy #expected #get