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I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience unless you know your truth, and you're not living a lie.
It takes a lot to be a part of a film and as an artist, I want to be a part of subjects that makes me feel happy and that's become a big priority for me.
Everybody wants freedom. You don't want to be shackled, especially as an artist. Nobody wants to be shackled, at the end of the day.
My artist name is actually my real name - Denzel Curry.
John Cage is someone I got into as a visual artist, before I even knew his music. I don't think a lot of people even know that he does visual art.
As an artist you always want to challenge yourself, but as you get older you want to bring the audience with you while expanding creatively.
Every artist thinks his most recent work is his best. If you didn't feel like that, you wouldn't do anything.
If you know me, you know Logic is my favorite artist.
Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.
I want to show that you can be just as amazing as labels and compete as a business and work as a business even though you're an artist.
There's a fine line between artist and product. I don't think the industry purposely does it, but I think that's just the way they maneuver. You have to be careful that doesn't become your story, where you become a product, and your art is tarnished because you're just seen as a tool to make money.
I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose.
I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'
I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it's no longer his... I just see what people make of it.
I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.
From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.
I'm an artist, so days don't start on any regular time.
I get to say 'no' to a lot of things. That, for an artist, is crazy.
There are times when I prefer a cerebral moment with an artist, and I'll just enjoy the wit of a Picabia or a Duchamp. It amuses me that they thought that what they did would be a good way of making art.
I can't deny that label-support gave me a leg up - though not every successful artist needs it.
In a lot of ways, I wouldn't be an artist in another time. I need to exist in a time where high and low art mix easily.
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