"I'm always going to be truthful to you. That's just the person I am and the artist I am."
"What does it matter how you define what an artist is?"
"His original color and personality does come through."
"You're not a real artist if you're not controlling the narrative of your art, you know? That's just it."
"I think I was born an artist. I think I have a responsibility to live up to that."
"I want to crystallize myself in this world of music making."
"When you approach a job from that perspective number one you end up usually really finding your style and your identity as an artist far more quickly and far more efficiently."
"His popularity is in part due to an idea of him as a complex, multifaceted artist and personality off screen."
"Whether you're doing the next strip club anthem or a revolutionary soundtrack or both... some of that is Onika Tanya Mirage."
"I'm still figuring this out, what type of artist I'm gonna be."
"The mark of a timeless artist is someone who puts out music that only they could sing."
"A lot of people have to deal with the fact that they are often labeled... not real artists... despite being a fantastic artist."
"I want to be known as the person who's a real musician, a real hard-working dedicated grown man that was passionate about his craftsmanship more than just the money."
"Kendrick's sonic choices constantly evolve and serve as a model for rappers looking to stand out from a crowd."
"I feel like confident when I do music... like oh you hear this [__] like are you singing I'm like yeah bro."
"The only job I had, the only thing that made me feel like I was still a performer, an actor, was Hell of a Boss."
"I ain't no [expletive] drill rapper, man. I'm an artist."
"If you are an artist, you need to be bigger than your songs."
"I'm an artist at the end of the day. If you disrespect me, of course, we're gonna have a problem."
"Art is who you are as an individual... and there's power in that."
"It's my job on the live stage and the studio to come in with my sound."
"It's those limitations that make us sound like us."
"I didn't want to be just another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart, and I knew it had to be my writing."
"You found that perfect artist voice that works for you."
"I think their songs are becoming more badass their choreography and styling is becoming more badass but at the same time they're not an NCT clone you know."
"I learned that if you want to be a good artist, you gotta be [expletive] weird. You have to, like, do some crazy [expletive], you gotta cut off your ear and you gotta die."
"I'm not a battle rapper, bro. I'm so much more."
"Nowadays, people take pride and even consider it a compliment whenever their art style or filmmaking skills are considered Burton-esque."
"I think it just speaks to Victoria’s genius that she’s able to work with Ariana and though they have a similar sound, when Victoria does her own projects they still sound distinct."
"I didn't necessarily want to be a performer."
"I just realized who I am as an artist is like I'm meant to help people heal."
"We don't want to be pop stars or rock stars, whatever. We wanted to make cool music."
"Genshin Impact managed to carve out its own unique artistic identity."
"RAM is the most human album yet by everyone's favorite Android duo."
"Originality is key to Watanabe's body of work."
"An artist needs to have their own unique recognizable style."
"Having your own style is an amazing skill that makes your work personal and unique."
"Find innovative ways, that's what makes you a trendsetter."
"Femininity isn't monolithic, so you can present yourself as a feminine artist and still find a way to set yourself apart."
"He used his fame to advocate his beliefs... he wanted to be faithful to his values but also honor the fact that there were a lot of other things about being an artist besides what your political beliefs are."
"I definitely want to be around in 10 years. I want people to still know who I am and you know I don't just want to be a one or two hit wonder, I want to have songs that people can sing and listen to 10 years from now."
"Your art is you, that's how you make your bread, that's how you express your emotions, that's why you're here, you're an artist, your art is you."
"Who the heck are you as an artist? Where did you come from? What is your point of view?"
"Being a star is much more than just singing or just acting or just dancing."
"I listen to a lot of music, that's why my sound is the way it is."
"He had become an artist in the purest sense."
"You are an artist when you say you are an artist and you are a good artist when you make someone feel something deeply and unexpected."
"There’s no separating the human being from the art and the creativity."
"I know who I am now, and my music has a purpose."
"Props for me are key... an extension of how she expresses herself."
"Being the best isn't what matters most. It's about the community that I'm a part of, what does art mean to me, what does it mean to me to be an artist."
"I know people know I can rap, but it's more so like I'm trying to be ... People knowing I can rap doesn't just do it for me."
"Didn't let the world Define him as just a rapper."
"The only socialist rapper known... Infinity knives... king cobra."
"I just be trying to use my music as my type of language."
"Art should be an extension of your personality and an extension of who you are."
"It's not about that. You know, you're artists. You, whoever people think you are, but at the end of the day, you're a human being. You know, I mean, you have emotions."
"You guys are creative people, artists, and you're gonna get fans for like your art or your work."
"Beyoncé is an album artist... every single album is set apart, it has its own sound, it has its own story."
"Harry Styles is the only One Direction member who has marked his place as an artist to look out for in the next decade. He has also marked his place as a solo artist in this current decade and that's what all of them are scrambling to do."
"You can't wrap up your identity too much in the art that you're making for other people."
"I'm gonna start watermarking my artwork a little bit more aggressively."
"Damn, I want to be like an anonymous artist too, that's what I'm saying."
"She can't really call it Memoirs of a Streisand because like, that's just too much of a derivative of something else and it's like I know she wants to be her own woman..."
"There is no point in doing drag unless you have a crystal clear POV that is different from other people's."
"The artist of tomorrow is not going to be very different from what I am right now."
"Some people consider White Light/White Heat to be the band in its purest form."
"I think the most difficult stuff for an artist is to create your own identity because when you look at a painting when you don't know the painting but you know who made it that's where the artist is really great."
"I'm declaring myself an artist, a creative, and I want to create my own projects."
"I'm a sculpture, I'm wet paint. Don't mess it up."
"Every artist that's a Christian does not have to overtly make Christian music that's good."
"You just gotta grow through it and I feel like I started at such a young age and I jump so many genres that I consider myself a genreless artist like I don't know."
"All being an artist means is to be fearless in your creative pursuits."
"I had this title of Drill Matic in my head. I was going to give Drill Matic to Dirk. I felt like Dirk was Drill Matic."
"So, I'm gonna do this. This is what I love and I'm going to get great at it. And if people want me, they'll come and get me. I'm not going to chase after them. I want to create my own ecosystem in that sense."
"It's just what you do. You shouldn't have this vision of the artist or the writer as some kind of divine figure."
"I am an artist, with the soul of a Philosopher, wearing the mask of a Teacher."
"I'm just a rapper. That's what I do. I rap, sing, and dance for a living."
"Pusha has such a clear vision of who he is as an artist."
"He's not letting one genre define him as an artist. He's defining whatever [__] genre he wants."
"She acknowledges her weirdness and her crazy music she states that this kind of music is the only kind of music that she would like and that she loves making art despite her sporadic behavior."
"Finding your voice and being able to paint in your style consistently is a huge part of a successful career."
"If you believe in yourself, you don't need other people to tell you you're great to know that you're an artist on the inside already."
"I've always been a huge endorser of music videos maintaining an integral part of the artist's identity."
"...once you've established yourself as an artist, a producer, somebody who has a style to say something..."
"It's just what I wanted to draw and I think I wanted to create a sketchbook that was filled with this kind of obsessive desire to learn how to draw and also to kind of, you know, figure out who I was going to be as an artist."
"It's in these weird moments where you find making little dots, expressions that have your piece look uniquely you."
"An artist can have a foot in each world."
"He's quintessentially an artist. Everything he says, thinks, breathes, lives, has to do with sculpture."
"Inking is very much a signature over your work."
"As an artist, you have to contextualize where do I belong in the timeline of our history."
"At the end of the day, there's only one guitarist who will sound exactly like you, and that is you. And like I've said, that's a good thing, a really, really good thing."
"...the initial concept is allowing me to be something that the other artists can't copy. They may be able to beat me at something, but not at being me."
"Artists often don't know what's the most special thing about themselves."
"We have to think about who the artist is in order also to think about who the audience might be."
"I like to call myself a record producer, not a record producer because the producer is somebody that strips away everything a band or artist is not and tries to bring out everything they are."
"Identity as an artist is very important."
"To be able to define a recognizable style, it is good to find the right balance that works for you."
"Do you want to be an artist or do you want to be a star? Because there's the Venn diagram of those two things, it's not perfect overlap."
"Never in my life I've stuck to a style and just seeing me create the work that I have always admired and wanted to make, it's quite emotional really."
"I think it's a very humbling feeling to be told that you can create and you are an artist in your own rights. It gives you the sense of achievement that you finally made someone realize that you're not just a guy in a wheelchair."
"I'd say I'm an artist first, but I'm also very much a graphic designer."
"That's a testament to any artist, that you can be a mixture of all your influences but take it further and do something unique."
"The reason why an artist becomes very well known is largely because they have something that they're doing with their artwork... that is really distinctive."
"Ikebana is not just about flowers; it's about the person who arranges them."
"We're truly artists, we've painted pictures."
"I play guitar, flute, piano. I'm a singer-songwriter. I am bilingual."
"You have to think like what is it that I love? How do I put my own personal spin on whatever it is that I'm creating?"
"His music sounds different, it's really special."
"He wanted to be seen as a philosopher, as somebody who could write poetry."
"At heart, I'm an artist; I'm a chemist, but at heart, I'm a teacher."
"It's about showing your personality, your interests, the things that really make you tick as an artist."
"I'm really starting to feel like a full-time artist."
"Sounds like you're an artist to me."
"You grab that mic and remind them who you are."
"Every artist should have at least one album that's a self-defining album."
"I'm an artist; I like living on the edge."
"Auteur: it's a label reserved for a tier of director whose individual style and artistic touch is so significant that his works are unmistakably his."
"I'm an artist, not only a drill rapper."
"As a cinematographer, what I really care about is that quality and that cinematic quality, my kind of footprint."
"It's in front of us first and foremost, to identify ourselves as who we are as artists, and that is the handshake we have with our fans."
"Your knowledge and skill in the craft of drawing thus becomes the natural working extension of your artistic and creative self."
"I was on this journey to figure out what my signature sound would be."
"I'm just an artist; I create. I'm going to keep making music, I'm going to keep making art."
"I think the best version of what they do."
"Art is very personal and to be your own authentic artist, you have to come to those conclusions about your art yourself."
"I'm from Toronto, born and raised, I'm an artist, producer, engineer."
"You know, typically, it seems like an artist finds identity and then the success. And for us, we found the success, and now we really found our identity."
"I'm artistically trying to very consciously be who I am right now and be honest with who I am."
"All it takes to be an artist, as far as I'm concerned, is to want to create something."
"You want to use your imagination; you know, you really are an artist yourself."
"We were definitely trying to make our mark as legitimate artists at the time and finding our voices."
"Don't let anyone make you feel that you are untalented or that you are not a real artist."
"I feel like I know myself better as an artist; I know a bit more of where I want to go."
"I find my footing as an artist when I dialed everything back and just focused on what's important."
"Her songs, although they come from a country background, they're not really strictly country songs, they're contemporary, they're pop songs with a country feel."
"Whoever wants to know something about me as an artist, which alone is significant, they should look attentively in my pictures and there seek to recognize what I am and what I want."
"When you're only releasing collaborations, of course, nobody's gonna know what your sound is, so it's important to have solo tracks as well."
"Each of them has a signature voice, a unique timbre that they bring to the table."
"What I love about this mixtape is the way that J-Hope presents himself."
"I'm an artiste, I'm a Picasso, you feel me? Hire me to do your paintings, baby."
"With another voice now, another fleece, I shall return a poet and at the font of my baptism take the laurel crown."
"Eric sounds exactly like Eric on every guitar."
"...an artist has no choice but to define their own place where they are and who they are."
"When I sing, I don't think about being Puerto Rican or American, I think about being an artist."
"We always try our best to show who we really are as artists."
"Every artist has their own marks, and it's one of the things that defines us from one another."
"It's not relevant in terms of establishing yourself as an artist, it doesn't make or break you in that way."