When you know who you are as an artist and you have your own identity and got it figured out it helps you know what to write about.
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.
I think we have the wrong notion of commercial and intellectual or artistic film. Because all films are commercial.
I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.
I did some artistic nudes when I was I 8 with a French-Canadian photographer while I was modeling. They were beautiful shots, and they were not about nudity.
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.
Why do we pigeonhole and label an artist? It is a sure way of missing the important, the contradictory, the things that make him or her unique.
I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.
When you're young and everything dramatic is exciting, you start to believe that hype that, in order to be an artist, you have to suffer. I've graduated from that school.
Bruce Lee only played himself. Chuck Norris is a martial artist that does acting. I want to be an actor that does martial arts.
I don't consider myself an artist. I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools.
We have this idea of artists being on the fringe and being debauched and strange. I don't think that people who commit themselves to classical arts should be exempt from that.
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.
All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.
The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'
We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.
There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.
