#artist

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. ↗

— Henry Miller

#art #artist #becoming #defeats #end

I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone. ↗

— Stephanie Mills

#anyone #artist #been #beyonce #business

To the general public, show business may just mean the artistic part, but the dollar and cents element is the reality every performer has to face. ↗

— Liza Minelli

#business #cents #dollar #element #every

Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#community #eventually #feel #i #isolated

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#becomes #helm #make #mark #massive

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#becoming #child #create #i #illustrate

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#creators #developers #game #job #kind

I have many favorite artists... Van Gogh as one, but he didn't really sing a lot! ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#favorite #gogh #i #lot #many

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be. ↗

— Meredith Monk

#another #artist #clear #create #form

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important. ↗

— Rick Moody

#begun #contempt #family #i #important