The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.
You'd have to be completely crazy not to be influenced by and take from other artists. It's completely impossible not to.
Because artists can be extremely eccentric and insane, and unfortunately, the people they hurt the most are the people that are closest to them.
At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.
Ultimately, because I'm an artist, I can't ever consider myself a nihilist, so I suppose I'm optimistic.
I've worked with a lot of directors, some of them you wouldn't really attach the word 'artist' to their name.
Madam Kluger, pufoasă, apretată şi cu genele atât de albe încât par pudrate cu zahăr, îmi face un cornet artistic [...]
But I found a lot of artists at the Cedar Bar were difficult for me to talk to.
A lot of my building blocks - who I am kind of as an artist - all came from being in L.A.
I'm growing as an artist and expanding my range, and not pigeonholing myself by doing the same thing, over and over.
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.
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.