I think it's fair to say that the Nobel Prize is the highest honor any scientist or artist can achieve.
He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
Artist Matthew Barney has made a film about “shit”. It is hardly original. Hollywood has made shit films for decades.
Cable had a latitude to move which created less censorship and bestowed upon the artists, the writers and the creators, more liberty to create their shows.
Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.
Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
I've always known that I'm very, very ordinary looking. But I'm not alien looking. I am an artist here to play characters.
Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either as artists or songwriters or producers.
Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant.
As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.
I feel like every artist has an opportunity to create something new and to challenge themselves to reach out to a new crowd.
Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
As actors, we're like these vagabond artists: we have to be invited to perform, so if you don't have a choice of options, it's very hard to define yourself.
Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.
It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.
'Clown' was written when I couldn't find anyone who believed in me as an artist. Maybe those labels will think twice next time a young songwriter comes along.
Ever since the Greek tragedies, artists have, from time to time, asked themselves how they might influence ongoing political events.
I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.
Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
