When you are on the management side, you still have to understand the artistic sensibility so that there is a dialogue with the creative side.
I've always wanted to be a brooding, deep, dark artist, but I can never keep that facade going for more than 15 minutes.
There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?
David is purely a conceptual artist. He didn't play any instruments or paint or anything. We were painters.
The challenge of the writer is to transform—artistically and imaginatively—a unique personal experience into a universal, meaningful story.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.
We get jealous not because we're evil, but because we have little artists pent up inside us.
Duke Ellington always had a style: original, clean with interesting color combinations. He had an artist's eye.
But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.
What my work is, is my approach to it. It's the practice. And my work is about the effort that I make to get there. And I think if there's anything artistic, it's in that middle space.
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
Due to my work as a musician, songwriter, recording artist and author, hundreds of people stream in and out of my basement studio to help me with my creative projects.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
I like kids' work more than work by real artists any day.
From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.
When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.
What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
Watching something being constructed, whether you're passing a building site or whether you're watching an artist at work, is fascinating, and I think that's the enjoyment.
I think when you work with really wonderful directors who have a really strong vision, it lets you as an artist set the tone for your own career.
