It'd be crazy to say just because an artist is not successful that means he's not talented. I don't think anybody really believes that, but sometimes it feels that way.
When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money
I imagine if Spotify becomes something that people are willing to pay for, then I'm sure iTunes will just create their own service, and they're actually fair to artists.
In 'There Will Be Blood,' my character was someone who was an actor himself almost. He had a rehearsed quality about him. He was a performance artist in a way.
Today, the smartphone in your pocket has a high-quality digital camera. Everyone - not just artists - is a photographer, and the explosion of photos taken annually proves it.
I like people like Robert De Niro and Anthony Hopkins. And Gianfranco Zola, who played for Chelsea and Italy. He's an artist with his feet.
In Quebec, we're less inhibited artistically, culturally, politically. We're less focused on box office and comparing our films to the American films.
A lot of jazz artists think people should like what they're doing just because it's jazz. I don't buy that.
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
He said, "Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.
Writers and other artists are mostly just historians, produced by nature to describe, decipher and thus historically represent the universe.
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." [ ( , June 10, 1996)]
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
I don't think any human being/artist is 100% emotionally stable, based on the human condition and our emotions that relate to it.
Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more.
