#artist

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#continual #extinction #personality #progress #self-sacrifice

Look, none of the artists who I admire or respect have ever shied away from a role because it might make them unpopular with somebody. ↗

— Matt Bomer

#artists #away #because #ever #i

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

#album #artist #belief #beyond #collection

There were a lot of choices to make and I always picked artist. I never once picked doctor, lawyer, firemen or something like that. It was always artist. ↗

— Maynard James Keenan

#artist #choices #doctor #firemen #i

When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with. ↗

— Linda Evangelista

#ask #ever #every #hairdresser #help

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. ↗

— Elia Kazan

#also #artist #dare #others #reveal

My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog? ↗

— Edie Falco

#afford #after #any #artists #burden

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. ↗

— Anish Kapoor

#artist #beyond #decorative #facade #felt

It strikes me as hubris that Universal will buy EMI. What it will do is create a super-major that will have far too much power... I think when Universal goes up over 40 percent market share, I don't see how reasonable regulators can countenance. It will impact not just labels, but artists and cultural diversity. ↗

— Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

#buy #countenance #create #cultural #cultural diversity

My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan. ↗

— Garth Brooks

#back #be happy #became #before #being