#artist

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination. ↗

— Zac Posen

#career #chaplin #charlie #charlie chaplin #disney

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind. ↗

— Richard Price

#artist #away #definition #excellence #freedom

The art world can be very intimidating because it's just so vast. You talk to people who are really clued in to all the young artists and coming into it you're never going to be able to catch up immediately, even though there's pressure to. ↗

— Daniel Radcliffe

#art #art world #artists #because #catch

I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should look like and turn it over to the artist. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#balloons #captions #descriptions #fashion #figures

So there was a way for you to get promoted and survive as an artist without worrying about AM radio hits. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

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What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#distinguishes #first #great #imagination #industry

An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world. ↗

— George Santayana

#actual #artist #consenting #dream #dreamer

The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance. ↗

— Frank Ocean

#claims #day #eleven #every #every day

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them. ↗

— Paracelsus

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I'm an actor, but I'm an artist. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

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