#artist

I believe art prefers rules. For some artists, the worst thing you can do is say 'Do whatever you want.' Such permission can be terrifying. I know it is for me. Often it's better if you impose rules or restrictions on a project. Requirements can force you to be creative in unusual ways. ↗

— Lisa Mangum

#artists #restrictions #art

I think I'm more influenced, just in general, not by blues artists, but more by stuff from Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder. Stevie Wonder is probably my biggest musical influence of all. And Donny Hathaway. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#biggest #blues #curtis #general #hathaway

I've been getting into different gospel artists; Aretha Franklin is someone I've been listening to a lot of. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#aretha franklin #artists #been #different #franklin

Probably my favorite artists to listen to James Taylor, Stevie Wonder - I haven't gone back in a really long time and really listened to them - my first guitar influences. It's been awhile since I revisited that. ↗

— Jonny Lang

#awhile #back #been #favorite #first

I recount as this journey begins where I rest to gather the tale from this same old house resting on the hill, leaving me a view of a carnival once seen from just across the tracks. My pallet is dry now. The colors I see no more. The rain has washed away many of the signs that once stood for a prosper home and family. My grave is waiting. The dreams once filled my head with images of world unison, hope and companionship for all. The saga spoken through my canvas drew darker as the years went on to the bitter cold nights. All that comes to me now are glimpses of faces that graced my soul. ↗

— Kris Courtney

#award-artist #drama #memoir #true-story #dreams

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness. ↗

— Joanne Greenberg

#artist #creativity #hope #inspiration #art

An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic. ↗

— Robert Henri

#imagination #art

I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here. ↗

— Gary Lucas

#basic #here #i #ignorance #jazz

It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art. Everything is transformed by his power into material and by writing it he can overcome it. Everything is grist to his mill. ... The artist is the only free man. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#freedom #art

I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it. ↗

— Brian Harvey

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