#artist

I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer. ↗

— Emeli Sande

#because #both #feel #great #i

The artist himself is actually the subject in everything after, say, 1900. Eventually, art becomes so removed from the community that you have to know about the artist before you can even look at the painting, because there is a conceptual idea going on. ↗

— Gus Van Sant

#actually #after #art #artist #because

The good life is one that's artistically made. ↗

— William Shatner

#good #good life #life #made

Know the names of past and current artists who are most famous for playing their instruments. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#current #famous #instruments #know #most

I've had the thought that a person's 'artistic vision' is really just the cumulative combination of whatever particular stances he has sincerely occupied during his creative life - even if some of those might appear contradictory. ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #combination #contradictory #creative #creative life

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#bbc #been #challenging #did #enough

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#anything #artist #felt #had #hits

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning. ↗

— Boz Scaggs

#beginning #i #i think #included #lot

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain. ↗

— Gerald Scarfe

#artist #bit #brain #computer #experiences

The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic. ↗

— Michael Schenker

#artistic #artists #beautiful #comes #copy