Next to the writer of real estate advertisements, the autobiographer is the most suspect of prose artists.
Myth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another.
I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.
My growth as an artist and a person has been so slow and gradual, it's hard to make a story out of it.
I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.
Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
With any kind of artistic thing, it's a muscle, like any athlete, and the moment you're not doing it, you lose all confidence. That's why I'm terrible with down time.
Every time we buy a CD or download a song, the artist is paid for their work. You might not know that this isn't the case when a musician's work is played on the radio.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
I thought for a long time that I was going to be a pop artist. It was around 18-19 that I started to make that a reality. I just knew that this was my destiny.
I was totally ignored for a while... that's a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don't have any time for you.
Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?
To some extent I happily don't know what I'm doing. I feel that it's an artist's responsibility to trust that.
It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.
Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
