Few contemporary artists mined the space between the ordinary and the strange better than Orozco did.
No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.
I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.
It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.
To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.
I want to learn - there's so much I have to learn about what it takes to be a recording artist, about what it takes to go on tour.
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
I've always liked artists like Chris Burden, who would take performances, put them in galleries, and then do things that were on the edge.
PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.
I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?
I came to New York to be a fine artist - that was my ambition.
I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc.
Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.
Destruction is as valid an artistic statement as construction. Both statements echo the model of the society we live in. The only invalid art is utopian
Time and death: It's the ultimate vision of an artist at the end of everything. It's just what's there. It was not something I planned to do.
If you're using a computer as an artist and expressing your personal vision, I think your personal vision comes through.
The biggest honor of my career was when I won R&B Artist of the Year back in the 1970s. I look at that as a major honor.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past.
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.
