An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Of course, I would be depressed sometimes, and my Mom would be worried about me because I would just sleep to escape. Cause I was so scared of being a musician or artist, or whatever you want to call it.
I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad,' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.
I grew up in a bus, traveled with various circuses and freak shows. I was a trapeze artist, and that was my dream. We just traveled the whole world, me and my mom and my little brothers and sisters. It was an adventure.
I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.
Usually people like to categorise artists. With my films, I categorise people: if I know which one of my movies you like, I can tell which kind of a person you are.
George Valentin: [first lines, heard in one of his films] I won't talk! I won't say a word!
I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself.
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better?
Most of the more celebrated names among African-American authors, poets, and artists are known to the world because of their association with specific cultural arts movements.
There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the '90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the regular armies and remains a freelance.
I wanted to make a film as an artist, and it's going to have to find an audience, you know. I don't know how big the audience will be.
Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.
When I first heard Ray Charles, he was a flop artist on a small label in California. He hadn't sold any records. And I bought his contract for $2,500.
Ripples of karmic events are best humbly done in an artistic, significant, unique karmic harvests without any forms of retaliation.
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.
If an artist is not only he who sings or paints, but he whow express himself by words or illustrations then I can consider myself as one.
I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all.
