Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out.
For an artist, there's nothing better than having the opportunity to create a world that doesn't- but could- exist.
Makeup artists are always giving me their stuff. My favorite thing is free stuff. I'll take anything.
Doing acting opened up other creative outlets; it made me feel freer as an artist.
I came from the South Side of Chicago wanting to be a rap artist and make videos.
In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
You've got to be honest with yourself aesthetically about who could you play. You want to artistically be true to that character.
The biggest difference between me and other artists out there is that they'll put anything out to sell a record or sell a ticket.
I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less.
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
There should be an element of mystique between the fans and the artist. That bit between the stage and the audience. I think that's necessary.
This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.
The thing about being an artist today is you get to develop right in front of people's eyes before you even put out an album.
I grew up in Ditchling. It was an idyllic village at the foot of the South Downs. In those days, the village was full of artists and sculptors.
If it wasn't for the TLC story, many artists would not have smartened up, and you wouldn't have the Lil Waynes and people with their own labels.
But at a certain point, you have to take your influence and find your own voice if you want to become a relevant artist.
Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.
Perhaps all artists were, in a sense, housewives: tenders of the earth household.
As an artist you have the luxury of maybe presenting an issue in a certain way, as opposed to actually solving it.
