I want to be an artist you cannot categorize at all. You can't put a box around me. You can't put anything around me.
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
It's not fair to compare one artist to another because they all come with their own sort of elements to the picnic, you know.
I'd rather be eccentric and artistic, than be normal and have not one inch of art flowing through my heart.
Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.
I'm focused now, definitely. I absolutely need to show everyone that I'm powerful and strong and can be graceful and artistic, too.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
The way to judge a new artist is by listening to their albums and gauging the progress that they make from the first record to the next one.
I'm just an artist. I can only do so much. I can only say so much.
I'm trying to embrace social media because it gives artists a little more power than we've had in the past.
'New Girl' is how I make my living, and if I'm going to do a movie, it's because I really, artistically, want to do it.
Read the folklore masters. Go to galleries. Walk in the woods. That's what you need to be an artist or storyteller.
Every artist picks what they want to put out there, what image they want to portray, and what they want people to know about where they're from.
I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.
If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.
For most people, art is only valuable if other people say it is; and artists are only worthwhile if they are either rich and famous, or dead.
People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
I really like working with unique and unknown artists, as they usually bring something fresh to a song.
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.
You have kids studying master class visual arts who are pushed to make films that will be successful economically; that's what they focus on. So they work for corporate interest instead of artistic expression.
I think probably, the makeup artists don't really know how long it's going to take until they really work with your face and they kind of mold it and build it as they're going along.
