#artist

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

A free culture is not a culture without property; it is not a culture in which artists don't get paid. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#culture #free #get #paid #property

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#battle #blacks #changed #civil #civil rights

When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#bronx #brought #easily #fed #fed up

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist. ↗

— Maya Lin

#art #artist #day #did #even

I cannot exist as a solo artist. ↗

— Courtney Love

#cannot #exist #i #solo #solo artist

Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic. ↗

— Marilyn Manson

#because #consider #ever #i #myself

You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#badly #crappy #goes #hear #herself

Can you blame them? We have to filter so much information these days. But it does make it difficult for an artist. I'm 46 years old now. I've had a lot of life experience and my voice has changed. People who expect the same old me are bound to be disappointed. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#blame #bound #changed #days #difficult

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#fairly #i #indulge #less #myself