The craving for recognition is every artist's Achilles heel.
Everything an artist smells, hears, tastes, touches becomes part of his art.
The task of the artist today is to defend feeling against the machine.
It's not an artist's job to change people or save the world.
To extract major truths from minor details is an artist's job.
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.
In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.
It would be awesome to stay popular, but if I was only an underground artist, I would be okay with that.
Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Film acting has been a very pure experience, because you have to give the purest form of yourself as an artist.
I've always loved the experience of working together with other people toward an artistic goal.
I've been drawing since I was about 3 and I come from a family of artists.
When business executives are making the artistic decisions and don't understand animation, things can go awry.
I had - I was pretty hell bent on getting into the cartoon business specifically as an artist from the get-go.
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
Artists thrive off each other, and when you see other people doing cool stuff, it inspires you to do cool stuff.
In addition to public housing, South Williamsburg is home to shabby artists' lofts like mine, apartments of Hasidic Jews, and one extremely tall, high-priced condo.
I would hope they would be our fellow artists, rather than trying to emulate or idolize clowns like us.
It was my father's hope, and it is ours, that the National Gallery would become not a static but a living institution, growing in usefulness and importance to artists, scholars and the general public.
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
