I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
Rhys IfansPolitics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Youssou N'DourI have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.
Rashomon and Seventeen Other StoriesSupport for the arts -- merde! A government-supported artist is an incompetent whore!
Stranger in a Strange LandArtists are often the barometers of society.
Total Truth: Liberating Christianity from its Cultural CaptivityEvery portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
The Picture of Dorian GrayThe great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
H.L. Mencken