My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.
No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.
I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.
Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.
I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Mostly, though, it's Beyonce and show tunes.
Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.
I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.
I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money
I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet.
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
