I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can't remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I've become an artist. I've become the artist.
There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Artists shouldn't wait until they are told what their art should be, they shouldn't follow trends or allow other people to influence their work, an artist should only create from the strongest emotions within their heart
Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.
I think that what most artists are trying to do is trying to understand. I think what distinguishes creative people and/or artists from another type of person is perhaps a willingness to go headlong into that uncertainty.
In a painting, you can't make out whether the artist painted the left eye before the right eye. In Chinese calligraphy, you can see the progression of the artist's stroke.
[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.
Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
Memory is imagination in reverse.
True friends can communicate with their eyes
For love to be forever, first it must be true.
Always stay true to yourselves.
The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.
I don't know the true meaning of happiness.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
True friends stab you in the front.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
The true measure of life is not length, but honesty.
