I just want to work forever. I absolutely love what I'm doing. I learn all the time from all these amazing artists.
The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.
If you're an artist, it's OK to put your money into your art. The advantage, in hindsight, is that you become the film, and the film becomes you; you breathe it.
Romanticizing the act of writing or any other art is not very helpful to the artist or the art. It's much better if one simply does.
When I was an art student in the early 60's before the acid scene began I was smoking pot just like anyone else who was an artist.
Many of the contradictions in Postmodern art come from the fact that we're trying to be artists in a democratic society. This is because in a democracy, the ideal is compromise. In art, it isn't.
In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist.
I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.
I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
I don't like to treat a piece of clothing like an object of art because I don't consider myself an artist. I'm a designer.
Even Michelangelo got paid for doing the Sistine Chapel. To those artists who say they're doing it for the love of art, I say: Get real.
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.
Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in.
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not primarily visual artists, and are, in nearly unsurpassable ways, literary.
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
