Inside you there's an artist you don't know about. He's not interested in how things look different in moonlight.
I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines.
To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.
An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them.
A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world...
As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.
TV is a major force in our lives - a FORCE. It must be handled very carefully, both its censure and its artistic honesty.
Being an artist for my well being and as a living, I live in a place of observance and interest in what I consider to be the most relevant questions.
With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
An artist can be truly evaluated only after he is dead. At the very 11th hour, he might do something that will eclipse everything else.
..it has always been so much my desire to paint for those who don’t know the artistic side of a painting.
Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically.
When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
