#artist

Most artists have experienced the creative block. We get stuck in our work. We beat our head against the wall: nothing. Sometimes, it is because we are trying something at the wrong time. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#artists #beat #because #block #creative

Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#contradictory #her #him #important #label

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#artists #basic #because #fact #gotta

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#artist #bad #be nice #deal #i

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together. ↗

— Glenn Frey

#band #both #don henley #going #happy

These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again. ↗

— John Lennon

#again #artists #cannot #created #critics

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist. ↗

— Sean Lennon

#commercial #means #necessarily #out #people

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#artist #being #different #hats #hopefully

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#become #comfortable #creative #creative person #curious

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

#belongs #degrees #exclusive #imagination #men