I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.
The artist discards all theories, both his own and those of others. He forgets everything when he is in front of his canvas.
Now that we do not have priests and philosophers any more, artists are the most important people in the world.
I'm from Israel, so America has no limits. I started a record label, and then I started managing other artists, like Liza Minelli.
I was a big fan of Jean-Claude Van-Damme growing up, and I always wanted to be a martial artist 'cause of him.
As a new artist - I don't care who you talk to - I think everyone would agree, it's hard to get your expectations right.
...and as far as talent is concerned, there will be such an excess that our artists will become their own audiences, and audiences made up of ordinary people will no longer exist.
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
It's unfortunate that a lot of people think African-American female artists are monolithically R&B this-or-that, don't have to do anything by default.
Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn a paycheck while you're waiting to kick the door down.
Talking to actors is the same as talking to any other artists; it's getting into the moment for them, and making sure they can lose themselves in the performance!
I'm involved with Recording Artists and Actors Against Drunk Driving. I'm also involved with most children's causes, because children can't help the environment they're in.
The moment I accept that there's an artistic, redeeming quality in puns, I have a horrible feeling I'll get hooked.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
I'm just being myself. To me, that people are interested in Jenni, not necessarily the artist, but the woman... it amazes me still.
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
I think, because I'm an artist, part of my job is to be a barometer, an antenna. It's in the air and it resonates with a lot of people to lighten up.
The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.
Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.