#artist

How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality? ↗

— Lou Reed

#anything #art #artist #artwork #how

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego. ↗

— Lou Reed

#artists #create #ego #i #i think

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts. ↗

— Lou Reed

#artist #arts #call #i #martial

I'm an artist and that means I can be as egotistical as I want to be. ↗

— Lou Reed

#egotistical #i #i can #means #want

I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material. ↗

— Haley Reinhart

#artist #back #get #i #just

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. ↗

— Auguste Renoir

#confidence #himself #his #listen #master

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists. ↗

— Tommy Rettig

#business #formed #guitar #learned #managing

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with. ↗

— Busta Rhymes

#artist #everybody #feud #people #picking

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#acting #aesthetic #artist #consider #craft

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. ↗

— Anne Rice

#book #chance #first-person #greatest #how