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"The more I am spent, ill, a broken pitcher, by so much more am I an artist--a creative artist."
"Kendrick is truly one of the greatest artists living today."
"Nipsey Hussle was an artist who touched our city and the lives far beyond of the City of Angels throughout this country and this world."
"We've been waiting 5 years for this sophomore album from the one and only SZA."
"Ed Sheeran's more recent songs have not been my favorite."
"You can call me artist or you can call me Idol."
"I think 'Love' is, first of all, amazing. So when I first got into BTS, RM was my favorite, his rapping flow was my favorite."
"That's some of the best music I've heard on a Kendrick, and it goes without saying."
"Now everybody serenade the new faith of Kendrick Lamar, this is King Kendrick Lamar."
"Being an artist on social media is hard and you are bound to make mistakes."
"Billy Joel's 'Allentown': one of his greatest songs."
"Sam Keith, one of the most self-deprecating, defacing, and insecure professional artists."
"The name that we give to this demigod is the artist."
"Regina Spektor came through with a killer record."
"I think like little Nas X, he knows exactly who he wants to be."
"Black Rob was nice. His name was Rob because he really was robbing."
"If I'm an artist and I have this charisma, then I need to sell myself for more."
"Live has so much power because that is where you see an artist doing the thing they love the most."
"Jasmine Sullivan's Tiny Desk is one of the best I've seen."
"Usually the great artist who could take that time off they could."
"It's hitting a pocket you don't get from another Travis song."
"When I look at Travis to me it's the most important song he's ever made, antidote."
"90210 is the winner of the Travis Scott bracket."
"Kanye West, he is undoubtedly one of the most influential artists of his generation."
"Her story of ascension as an artist is just so inspirational."
"Wayne Reynolds consistently knocks it out of the park."
"Absol is not sounded this cutting edge in years, years, years."
"Kenny Chesney is one hell of a guy and an artist."
"Tightened up, of course, by the one and the only Kanye West."
"I just remember the day that I decided to be a professional artist it's really well was that I was a sophomore in high school so I'm sorry I was a freshman in high school."
"He's not only just a comedian, he's an artist and like his own cinematographer, his own director."
"Dear Mama taught me everything I needed to know to become an artist."
"If you enjoy dark ambient raw black metal again in vain of like the Les Legions Noire, definitely check out Maxime Taccardi's work."
"...be the artist that you want to be, you don't need that huge following to justify these actions."
"Having social media as a supplemental form of your portfolio is going to be helpful to showing who you are as an artist."
"Daniel Caesar has risen and proved himself to be a modern soulful icon in the ever-evolving landscape of R&B."
"Play 'Blue' by Eiffel 65, I think they are Italian."
"Lucky Day 100% is my new favorite R&B artist of the past five years."
"I don't think any artist has ever just posted, 'I'm scared you guys are not gonna like this news'."
"It's about you, it's about the artist, it's not about your brush."
"Being an artist means also running your own business."
"...represent real issues and struggles that artists face starting off with the show that I loved dearly for a multitude of reasons BoJack Horseman."
"My dream collaboration would be Drake for sure."
"I really want to do a song with Kanye for real for real."
"I'm not going to put myself in one category. I want to do it all."
"I'm going to be the biggest female artist in the world in five years from now."
"It showcases her skills so well as a songwriter, as a singer."
"An artist's confidence is more often than not separate from their accomplishments."
"Georgia O'Keeffe was one of the most famous American artists of the 20th century."
"Frank Ocean has built a reputation as a boundary pushing artist with a cult like following."
"She's the most similar to Lady Gaga."
"Mary Cassatt was born in the good old USA."
"Monet knew Étretat from his youth. He grew up in Le Havre just up the coast from here and he was, of course, a beach bum by instinct."
"Van Gogh was only in Paris for two years before he suddenly decided to leave for the south of France just as abruptly as he'd arrived, so this impressionist phase of his was really short. But the change in his work was momentous."
"I realized holy mackerel like when I look at my audience on Instagram probably less than two percent of them are art collectors who are actually buying my artwork and the other 98 are artists like you and me."
"He's really truly a gym, a special artist indeed."
"He wears many hats: producer, composer, visual artist, activist."
"Drake is the most battle tested artist of his generation."
"Who am I? I think first and foremost, I'm just an artist."
"There's something mystical about Hank Williams."
"I will not surrender my art to a man like you. Artists will be treated as kings and queens, rich and wealthy."
"Being an artist, it's not so much your skill with the brush in your hand, it's your skill in how you see things, and how you see the life, and how you see beauty in the most simplistic thing."
"He was a true artist and he had found the means to get his [ __ ] done."
"Taylor Swift is very much a tortured poet herself."
"I immediately think music artist. And if it's good stuff, you immediately think, 'Oh, and they're nice at whatever the musical thing is they're trying to get me to believe in.'"
"If you're not in love with big YouTubers as an artist, then it's soul-crushing."
"Number one way for an artist who is young in the game trying to figure it out doesn't have any money to build their audience to get traction as an artist tick tock nothing close to it all right tick tock tick tock tick tock"
"Your job as an artist is to get them out so the good ones can follow."
"She's a teacher, she's an artist, she's just a whole different level of creative. She's insane."
"My top artist was Tom Misch for like the fifth year in a row."
"You can't really separate the art from the artist when this directly affects the art."
"He was probably the most important artist of the 20th century."
"Change the way people see the world like Robert Vargas."
"Go listen to Leon's music. That's it. Go listen to Leon's record 'Electric Dust.'"
"What percentage of your income as an artist would you say constitutes commissions?"
"Drake is for women, Drake is for the girls to listen to, okay."
"He was a true artist, a phenomena, a myth."
"It's cool when you think about the type of artist that I've always wanted to be."
"We live in a world anymore where you can't separate the artist from the artistry, you just can't."
"Black Cat was the record where Chris finally gave everyone the record we had always wanted."
"Vasily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and died in France in 1944, considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, on par with Picasso and Matisse."
"You're the only artist I know that gives back like this."
"Toulouse-Lautrec approached the world around him with a sense of dynamism, energy, and humor."
"How do we separate artist from person, you know what I mean?"
"In those cases, and others, I can separate the art from the artist, or the art I enjoy from the art I don’t."
"Their solution for me was very compelling. They suggested that I had been suppressing part of my identity as an artist."
"Nas's proficiency as an MC has not dropped off one bid and that it's really only grown and evolved over time."
"That album was the first time Bubba Sparks really was like 'I'm gonna Embrace this [ __ ] I do.'"
"Doing Artist Alley at Anime conventions... I go to cons, set up a table, and all weekend I am there selling my art making money off of my work."
"Artist Alley experiences at different cons."
"Banky is the name of an anonymous street artist originally from Bristol, England."
"Being an artist, being in the entertainment industry, you have to have a look that's attractive to most people."
"Rest in peace Six Dogs. He's an artist I listen to quite a lot."
"I can make a million different songs. I can get in there and we can do R&B. You know what I'm saying? Like, I'm a great artist."
"Her legacy is bigger than the products, you know she was an artist and I'm glad to know about her."
"Have you ever seen, you know, in movies and cartoons a lot of times you'll see an artist and they're like holding their thumb up like this or they're holding their pen up or their brush up like that. What is that about? It is actually a very useful tool that we really do use."
"I'm not a tidy artist. I'm not a tidy person. I am always everything is in chaos."
"I recently released a song called 'INVITATION' featuring Gaeko of Dynamic Duo."
"Rob Banks stylized as Rob Banks with a money symbol on the end is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer."
"Despite this we constantly present him as an autonomous artist, a singular creative genius, something that of course is reinforced by a presentation like this."
"Don't give up on your dream of being an artist. We have it so much better than Van Gogh did."
"I'm just a little more popular than before, still every bit an artist and geeky like it used to be but just a little bit more busy."
"Drake cannot be stopped. Drake is that artist."
"Joni Mitchell is one of a kind, a singer who bears her soul through her art."
"Love sci-fi stuff done by Peach Moko."
"We might do a separate one specifically or even a patreon when we start rolling that out but I will very quickly say her greatest makeup looks from her entire career have been by Billy B."
"Grace Slick is no joke, bro. Oh, she's something else, man. You know, she asked the girl to put that sound out in the '60s and she's chasing lovelies."
"Can you separate the artist from the music?"
"Don Oriolo is known for his paintings and making music. He has an art gallery in Key West, Florida."
"Velvet Underground: 'Who Loves the Sun'."
"That's when artists expand your conception of them and of what art can be."
"What makes the artist is the art."
"The whole thing about the writer who sees the job as a burden and something they struggle along... I sometimes think writers draw this cloak of the tortured artist around them because, A, you can get free drinks and B, chicks love it."
"I love an artist community, artists working together, collaborating."
"Phoebe Bridges, oh, that's some, I know her, she's like pretty indd."
"We never cared about the artist we cared about the art."
"I think for every artist finding their own style is pretty elusive."
"She is that rare person: an artist."
"Your dreams are coming true. It's time for you to live your life and embrace your inner artist."
"Ice Spice dropped a new single, definitely, she in that same pocket, that same bag."
"No debate that Olivia Rodrigo is the biggest new artist of 2021."
"...I feel like Queen Latifah is so cool because she was able able to be herself through everything I feel like her artist her Artistry went past music."
"I am an artist, my friend. And as an artist, I hold to a strict code: never explain and never apologize."
"So, if you don't know Afro-swing SL Afro Fusion artist called Amay... unreal, ridiculous artist, love."
"Yeah like a lot of the times the first time you meet that artist when it's like that is like whether it's at their show or something."
"Young Pappy should be the top five lyricist."
"Pablo Picasso settled on the French Riviera like Europe itself he had a renewed joie de vivre."
"Think of yourself as an artist... it's a way of thinking of yourself, to think of yourself as an artist."
"The contests are a really fun way for you to stay inspired as an artist and to you know paint stuff that's outside of maybe your normal scope of artwork every single month."
"Some of you guys could be an artist here, a singer, a beat maker, a rapper, someone here is an artist and you're about to get a contract here."
"My first one is jazz fusion artist Billy Cobham."
"The greatest compliment for an artist is if people could dress up as you for Halloween."
"I think Gunner was one of the few artists where even if you didn't know a song that he made, if you put on Gunner, you weren't going to tell you to skip Gunner. Uh-uh, no, I never exper bad music he doesn't. That's the safe pick every time."
"Music always was therapy to me before I became an artist."
"This pop star is responsible for the hit song 'Try Everything' from Zootopia."
"When you're an artist you play all your unreleased music, all the songs that define you musically."
"An artist who fuses drum and bass, breakcore, noise, industrial, and shoegaze."
"But see, me as an artist, I make attempts to evolve and grow into something that surpasses what I've already done."
"Tai would become a staple of Kanye's albums."
"Ty Dolla Sign is one of the most underrated artists of Our Generation."
"Monet was a rebel right from the start, a man destined to change French painting forever."
"I'm all right with it, another one polka dot Poncho suggested another artist that seems to be pretty popular with the Zoomer tick tockers is Tame Impala."
"Vivian Westwood the woman, designer, artist, free thinker, and activist."
"I think the most important things for me is a relationship between yourself and the artist."
"A true artiste should be remembered for his inspiration, not his perspiration."
"Misunderstood perhaps as an artist, and too much fixation on the literal meaning of 'Sexual Healing.'"
"Niall Horan's one of the most important artists and songwriters of this generation right now."
"I like when an artist sounds the same live as they do."
"Thomas Kincaid was very vain, branding himself as 'Thomas Kincaid, the painter of light.'"
"One awesome thing is looking at the credits here this issue is illustrated by the great Ross Andru."
"If you're very power-using artist, get an iPad Pro."
"Although we didn't know these songs and although there were periods of considerable tedium, you know here was a great artist still trying to be creative and do something new."
"He's like an artist just across everything, you know? Visual, audio, everything."
"The earnings of the artist in this chart are not guaranteed."
"I love the art so so much, Beth Sobel did such a good job."
"The artist may create an audience which will nourish him but he may never have a public. A public exists in the time of the artist, timeless."
"This was such a cohesive, cool showcase, exactly, of Taeyeon's different eras."
"Let's face it, is it even a requirement for artists to be a good performer these days? No, it's not."
"I respect you as an artist because you respect me."
"Don't get caught up too much in the tool. It's the artist's skill that matters."
"It's an artist at the peak of his power is making the work that he wants to make."
"Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Neil Diamond."
"This artist only has one song so this is their very first song which is also kind of crazy."
"Don't be that kind of artist. People want to connect to you, and every artist should be grateful for that. Give some love back and let your community know that you appreciate them by being more than a robot posting on the internet."
"He's an artist that came from the UK who's always infiltrated the underground scene and he's easily the best underground rapper of all time."
"I picked my top artist, Trippy Red."
"Big Pun's a cool pick...he sort of fits into that landscape of someone like a Big L who's had a short-lived career but made a [ __ ] impact with just one album."
"If there is no art, then there is no separating the art from the artist."
"I think in my own journey I'm trying to put that to bed I really respect people who who find inspiration in that I and I understand that like intimately but um yeah moving forward I'm trying to sort of be the most UN tortured artist that."
"Absolutely no one holds a candle next to Nav in this hip-hop game."
"It's okay to be obsessive; it takes a certain level of obsession to be an artist."
"The artist must often sail against the currents of his time."
"I think it'd be dope, man, uh, to highlight that Peasy has an ear for music, talented artist. He's responsible for introducing the world, man, to one of the most influential artists, man, over the last couple of years, Rio the Young OG."
"Jiro Horikoshi was a brilliant artist with a big dream, which makes his story truly heartbreaking."
"Considered by many to be his final masterpiece."
WHEN I WENT TO THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK IN 1948, THEY ASKED ME, "WHAT ARE YOU PLANNING TO BE?" WELL, IF YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT, "I WANT TO BE AN ARTIST."
"Just listen to my most popular song, listen to X by Dino."
"What song do I find myself listening to? Lately, I've been listening to a lot of Donnie Hathaway."
"As a creative as an artist like you got to know what your brand is and stand on that [__] you know what I'm saying."
"Sometimes artists do the mixing as well, but that is becoming more and more common these days."
"We definitely are a lot better at separating the art from the artist."
"Every artist has their magnum opus."
"Vincent van Gogh died on July the 29th, 1890, seemingly destined to be a long-forgotten artist."
"Bare Naked Ladies, it's been one week."
"Kanye was reportedly inspired by the 1994 Portishead album 'Dummy'."
"Is Kodak Black on this list? Yeah, he's nine. Yes. Oh, really? Yeah, let's go."
"She's an incredible artist. She keeps delivering great songs and this one, after just a couple of days, it went number one on Spotify."
"Jim Starrenko is a cool artist to delve into because he was very, very creative."
"The most important part of an artist's responsibility is to be a great observer."
"Did Mozart really have tourette's did he really go in for toilet humor it doesn't matter and we don't waste time thinking about it but we think of the artist and so it will be with future generations"
"It's not the tool, it's the artist behind the tool."
"The cool thing about it was that Will is credited as the artist."
"As an artist myself, I've written a book here, often one of the most painful things to let your own art after it out into the wilderness so that other people can really solve it and criticize it, but eventually you gotta let it go dude."
"It's always flattering to be called an artist, but yeah, both a craftsman and an artist to an extent."
"It's funny how wrong an artist can be about his own work."
"He was the first person in my entire life that had ever not only told me that it was possible to make a living as an artist but how to make a living as an artist."
"Kirsty McColl was regarded as one of the finest artists of her generation in the United Kingdom."
"An artist is most free when she lives within her art. The moment she leaves it, she feels the cold winds and the destitution of domestic life."
"I just love when an artist is authentic to themselves."
"Art relates to the artist making it and the unique contribution they are bringing to the culture."