#artist

The best artists know what to leave out. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#best #know #leave #out

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling. ↗

— Ted Lange

#artists #cosmic #instruments #should #storytelling

I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#i #life #lonely #many #must

There are many kinds of movies in Hong Kong. Some are commercial and others are more artistic. ↗

— Andy Lau

#commercial #hong #hong kong #kinds #kong

I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#disinterested #fell #her #i #i think

As artists, we like night more than day sometimes. ↗

— Ang Lee

#day #like #more #night #sometimes

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances. ↗

— Ang Lee

#because #big #circumstances #function #i

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again. ↗

— John Lennon

#again #artists #cannot #created #critics

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#commercial #means #necessarily #out #people

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#artist #being #different #hats #hopefully