The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel'd to heaven is no artist.
An artist is forced by others to paint out of his own free will.
The thing about working with Peter Jackson is that, at the end of the day, he is a passionate artist.
The cruelest thing you can do to an artist is tell them their work is flawless when it isn't
I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much.
People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.
The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work.
Sometimes two artists wanna work together, but it doesn't mean it's gonna happen, because you have to find the right idea.
A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.
I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
I think there is an element of nihilism about, but I don't think most artists feel their work is meaningless.
You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
There's very few geniuses that come and revolutionize everything. For the rest of us that want to be artists and have something to say, it's a lot of work and a lot of luck.
For me, making the show work was getting belly laughs - like most variety artists. But the straight actor believes you fix your performance in rehearsal and that's it.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
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