Out of all artists, authors are the least trained for the spotlight. Wanting attention isn't a requisite part of the package.
I've worked everywhere. I worked in a warehouse packing surf supplies, a restaurant washing dishes, in retail, and I was a 'sandwich artist' at Subway.
Artists, by their free expressions, encourage others to be free. This is the quality that makes works of art enduring.
Artists realise that mathematicians have a way of looking at the world that can make them see things differently.
Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.
After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
I guess I'm drawn to artists and literary people and want to learn about them.
An artist, if you’d really like to know who’s fucking your wife.
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
I'm incredibly close to my family. I have two younger brothers; they're both artists and actors, and their work and the way they see the world inspires me.
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.
You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience.
I've realized that I love all forms of music and get excited when any artist goes crazy and creates something that is an experience.
The whole experience of getting an album from an artist you like and listening to it from beginning to end is sort of gone. Now it's piecemeal.
In a time when it is common for chefs to simply reproduce the innovations of others, the few who speak for themselves through their food become the skilled artists of their time.
I've learned to sell my music, I've learned to direct, I've written screenplays... All of this fulfilled my artistic needs but also put food on the table.
I'm not actually sure that actors or artists should be allowed to have a family, because the focus you need, the egotism, the myopia, is just taking away from the relationship.
I'd like to someday see myself married to my true love and starting a big family, and at the same time still having an artistic job.
