I've learned over the years that you're going to be most successful at the things you're most excited to do. Every artist has a special set of tools. When you really use those tools, and you make yourself feel really good about the product you create...
I'm just basically trying to make music that feels good. Right now in the music industry there's a real lack of intimacy. You don't really connect with the artist as much anymore, and you don't really understand where they are. I'm basically doing mu...
I try to physically and mentally immerse myself in whatever it is I am doing. That is good for me as an artist. I am always looking for that part that I have never done before, which makes it all the more difficult, because people want to hire you fo...
Being scared is really a good thing. It's being scared of being scared that's bad. Being scared of walking through your fear, going to a place of true creativity - that's what an artist is, that's what he does. If you do that, then being inspired by ...
I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One ...
I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not f...
If an artist is good, nobody else can do what he or she does and therefore all comparisons are incoherent. Only the mediocre, pushing forward a commonplace view of life in a commonplace language, can really be compared, but my wife thinks that "least...
It seems obvious, looking back, that the artists of Weimar Germany and Leninist Russia lived in a much more attenuated landscape of media than ours, and their reward was that they could still believe, in good faith and without bombast, that art could...
Indeed, artists, particularly modern artists, have intentionally limited the scope and vocabulary of their expression to convey, as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt do, the most essential, even spiritual, ideas of their art.
An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.
The best writing is when one writes from the soul
The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
Arguably, no artist grows up: If he sheds the perceptions of childhood, he ceases being an artist.
When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.
I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.
I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.
A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.
I believe artists deserve all the help they can get, so they can focus on being great artists.
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
