Anybody with artistic ambitions is always trying to reconnect with the way they saw things as a child.
I think artists are driven by the engine of their own talent, but it's a question of what use they put it to.
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
I'm not an artist that has a big, huge radio record that's going to be on BET.
In Japan, artists and fans are rather far apart from each other.
My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel.
I'm not an artist. I tell inappropriate stories and jokes and I try to make people laugh.
The world is crawling with authors touring now. They're like performance artists.
We don't know why we should be artists, but we have many reasons why we can't be.
As an artist I'd choose the thing that's beautiful more than the one that's true.
Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.
I'm not an artist or a collector. I'm a skateboard kid with no one to tell me if I'm not doing things the right way.
I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
Every artist needs canvass, mine just happens to be Microsoft Word and a Thesaurus.
I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
Artists of today can be inspired by the past, but they have to apply present methods if they want a future in music.
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
You know what, if you compromise and do stuff that's not becoming to you as an artist, that's your fault.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
When you actually meet the devil and he offers you a deal most artists eventually negotiate.
