Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and find the bridge between my world and their world.
For a while, I was nervous about portraying women because of the objectification that automatically comes with it, whether the artist intends or not.
I have about as much artistic talent as a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs in a bag.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Creativity is not the property of artists alone. It's a basic element of the human character, no matter what culture you're in, no matter where you are on Earth or in history.
There is more to representing art than selling art. The life of the gallery is dependent on the renewal and refreshment of its artists and dealers. When that stops happening, it's the end.
I was an actor as a kid in Boston. Then I went to art school with Brice Marden, the Massachusetts College of Art. So the hybrid of being an actor and artist is a director.
Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope I'll be around making art when I'm 80.
The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.
In my previous life, I was an artist. I still paint. I love art.
Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.
If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.
How can anybody learn anything from an artwork when the piece of art only reflects the vanity of the artist and not reality?
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually not present.
I'm not a very creative person, you know? I'm not really an art person. I'm not a great reader or writer or artist or musician.
Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
Metaphors. This was the cost of making out with an artist.
I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.
