I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.
Coming to understand a painting or a symphony in an unfamiliar style, to recognize the work of an artist or school, to see or hear in new ways, is as cognitive an achievement as learning to read or write or add.
I love artists like Jon B, but I don't wanna be compared to anybody. I'm just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.
I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.
You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.
Two of my favorite artists are Josh Smith and Joe Bradley. But I argued against them for years, until I grew to love them and felt stupid for my immediate reaction towards their work.
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
People think artists like 50 Cent don't have charisma, but it's just a different kind of charisma, a bully charisma, which is kinda frowned upon.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.
We are going to finish this picture just the way I want it... because you cannot compromise an artist's vision.
Some of us are philosophers, some are artists, some are rulers and some are some-others. But, we all are makers and proud labors.
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.
It keeps me in touch with younger musicians who are constantly saying, 'Have you heard this new artist, or this new guitar player?' It keeps you reaching.
My daughter's 19. I'm not asking her to develop as an artist. I'm just asking her to develop as a full person, human being.
You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.
Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution.
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
There have been times I've felt so much art in my soul I grew sick of artists.
I think you're all mad. But that's part and parcel of being an artistic genius, isn't it?
Being an artist is being at the service of yourself; I am at the service of other people.
