My concern is to continue respecting my work as I've done since I began as an actor and I could only do that if I'm strong enough to keep on doing what I think best in an artistic way.
One of the tasks that any artistic director has is, you're trying to bring elements together that will work. The truth is that you could bring all the best talents in the world together and produce a big turkey.
The time of illusion, then, is the beautiful moment of passion; it represents the artistic zone in which the poet or romance writer ought to be free to do the very best that he can.
Getting to meet other artists that I admire is one of the best parts of my job. I don't know if I'd say 'star struck' as much as excited to hear other peoples' ideas.
You have to be narcissistic to be an artist. You have to think you are the centre of the whole thing; otherwise, why do you create? The only thing is to recognise it, and then you make the best of it.
I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.
Thank God kids love following an artist. When you get a group who pop, it's the best thing in the world.
For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people's lives.
My dad and I are best friends. He's pretty much responsible for the way I turned out. He would provide a little artistic inspiration here and there in the form of a guitar, stuff like that.
No artist is well served in thinking what will happen to their works. The best one can hope is that they'll enter the mainstream, and people will pull bits and pieces from them.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty.
The self is also a creation, the principal work of your life, the crafting of which makes everyone an artist.
I would like to tell you that I wrote my book to push back artistic boundaries. But I didn't. I wrote it to impress a girl.
Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.
I don't really have a favorite pop artist - I just listen to some pop songs here and there. Mostly, though, it's Beyonce and show tunes.
Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that.
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress.
I think that it'd be nice for other Asians to support other Asian artists and help each other instead of pull each other down.
I feel like being an artist and being an activist are separate things; I know some people who feel very differently.
