Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divid...
DeathWish: You spent some time working with Courtney Love and Billy Corgan on a creative level, how did this experience help your growth as an artist? EA: It didn't -- it stunted it entirely. I gave up over a year of my life and career helping Billy ...
I have always noticed that these artists and writers are very unbalanced
An artist simply cannot trust any public emblem of merit.
The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.
...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
Very few great artists feel the giant agony of the world.
When birds look into houses, what impossible worlds they see.
I am an artist you know ... it is my right to be odd.
We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.
Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.
I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.
The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.
