We're trying to do what Miles Davis would have wanted us to do, which is approach it as artists with his life as the canvas.
It's nice to sometimes get things out of life, rather than stealing from other artists. I'm trying to steal from the real people.
I love making money, but you can't live your life waiting to get rich in a job that no longer feeds you artistically.
I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
Show me the artist anywhere who's had an utterly stable mental life, and I'll buy you hot dinners for the rest of your life.
In my opinion, the true pioneers are those artists who make manifest in their works the new content, the determining characteristics of life in our time.
The bohemian life that reigned in Paris until the end of the '50s is gone. The artists had more time to think, to reflect; success didn't come so suddenly.
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.
I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.
To be honest, I'm really into folk music, and I love Big Phony. I like Priscilla Ahn, and yeah, I really support Asian-American artists.
I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people.
When I was a little kid I wanted to be an artist or a painter. But once I got into boxing, all I wanted was to box.
I think every artist strives for a record that crosses all energy, lines, boundaries or languages or barriers.
I don't wanna be known as just a hip-hop artist. I wanna take it to a whole 'nother level.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his [sic!] time but most people are far behind theirs.
Can that make any sense - a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
An artist must be passionately in love with her art. Obsessed or possessed ― go mad for what you believe in.
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
