As one would expect, the story champions Mr. Caland as an uncompromising artist and friend to the homeless catatonics lying around Santa Monica.

The pianist Piotr Anderszewski, who gave an engrossing recital at Zankel Hall last night, is a fiercely original and uncompromising artist.

The men who have really been the bold artists, the realistic artists, the uncompromising artists, are the men who have turned out, after all, to be writing "with a purpose."

Whatever else he may or may not have been, Blake was the most genuine and uncompromising artist you can think of.

Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual, rather than an entertainer.

He was the most genuine and uncompromising artist you can think of, a combination that puts him out of step with so much art today.

That it made the writer not a bean seems only too apt for such a singular and uncompromising artist.

Frank Stella first caught the attention of the New York art world in 1958, at the age of 22, when his austere "black paintings" marked him as an uncompromising, inventive artist.

"Rounded out by some of the most uncompromising noise/avant-garde/experimental artists in all of music's sordid underbelly, Load has always prided itself on remaining outside of common taste and maybe even common sense."

THERE are two kinds of tough-minded, morally uncompromising artists in today's film world: those who want to make musicals and those who don't.