#artist

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

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature. ↗

— Tadao Ando

#around #artistic #going #happening #i

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#does #excellence #goes #lie #produces

Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists. ↗

— Mitchell Baker

#drawn #i #liken #people #really

It's a funny relationship that makeup artists have. I always feel kind of like a dentist. People look at me and think of pain. ↗

— Rick Baker

#artists #dentist #feel #funny #i

My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way. ↗

— Javier Bardem

#artistic #began #best #concern #continue

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. ↗

— Ethel Barrymore

#arts #belong #find #generation #i

Wynton and Christopher were really great experiences for me because they are both very gifted artists. ↗

— Kathleen Battle

#because #both #christopher #experiences #gifted

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#artist #express #first #man #men

To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#artists #brain #dead #experience #fact