#artist

Special-interest magazines are dangerous places for writers to start out in because the writing quickly falls into a routine and people are likely to find themselves artistically exhausted when they want to work on something of their own. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#because #dangerous #exhausted #falls #find

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it. ↗

— Jules Shear

#artist #attorney #bit #did #get

I've gone through the village of my songwriting and my artistry, and I've gone through lots of different phases, including one where it has been very quiet and abandoned me for a few years. ↗

— Carly Simon

#artistry #been #different #few #gone

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz. ↗

— Joe Simon

#after #american #artists #book #carried

When I signed a record deal, I was always told by execs I needed to be like everybody else, that I had to show my midriff, things that would take away from who I want to be as an artist. ↗

— Jessica Simpson

#artist #away #deal #else #everybody

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility. ↗

— Patti Smith

#artist #aspect #being #figure #good

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God. ↗

— Patti Smith

#competition #enters #god #into #somebody

Artists are traditionally resistant to labels. ↗

— Patti Smith

#labels #resistant #traditionally

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist. ↗

— Patti Smith

#because #drawing #felt #female #gender

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty. ↗