When I land in a country and they ask for 'occupation,' I always just put 'artist.' I think that covers all of it.
You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.
The subject may be crude and repulsive. Its expression is artistically modulated and balanced. This is style. This is art. This is the only thing that really matters in books.
The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
Acting is a very artistic profession and there are thousands of people out there who think they are actors but there are very few who have real talent.
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Every intelligent person, whether he's an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.
My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
Can't a rapper insist, like other artists, on a fictional reality, in which he is somehow still on the corner, despite occupying the penthouse suite?
An artist's early work is inevitably made up of a mixture of tendencies and interests, some of which are compatible and some of which are in conflict.
I've always felt that I would rather see an actor, writer, or musician's work, rather than actually know the person. If you know too much about an artist, it somehow lessens their ability to do their work as well.
All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.
What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.
I think you just have to cross your fingers that there's enough artists out there that keep producing interesting work, and eventually it will form a kind of wave that will force people to pay attention to it.
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.
Biennial culture is already almost irrelevant, because so many more people are providing so many better opportunities for artists to exhibit their work.
You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
When I think of artists that I would have loved to work with, it's Jimi Hendrix. And Steve McQueen. He's not a rock star, but he's kind of a rock star to me.
Every makeup artist or stylist with whom I work has many special ideas, tips, and creations. I can always learn so much from them.
I think that there will always be artists out there who think they need to sign a major label deal in order to be successful. And that machine is what is going to work for them - there's tons of examples of pop stars who need that machine.
