He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael and the old masters––not because he was fully convinced of their lofty merit, but so as to shove them in the faces of young artists.
I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.
When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a c...
But I'm not an artist. Maybe an artist with a small a.
Young J.R.: [J.R. turns up the radio] Guess which Carter this is. Young Jack Cash: I don't know J.R. Young J.R.: Guess... Young Jack Cash: Anita? Young J.R.: Nope... Young Jack Cash: Who? Young J.R.: June.
Young Simba: All right, it worked. Young Nala: We lost him. Young Simba: I - am a genius. Young Nala: Hey, genius, it was my idea. Young Simba: Yeah, but *I* pulled it off. Young Nala: With *me*. Young Simba: Oh, yeah? [leaps at Nala who flips Simba ...
An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Young J.R.: [to Young Jack] How come you're so good? Young Jack Cash: [laughs] I aint! Young J.R.: You pick 5 times more than me. Young Jack Cash: Well, I'm bigger than you are. Young J.R.: You know every story in the scripture. Young Jack Cash: Well...
Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Young Noah: Get in the water. Young Allie: No! I'm scared. Young Noah: [yelling] Get in the water, woman! Get in the water! Young Allie: [looks at him, puzzled] Young Noah: [calmly] No I'm sorry baby, please just get in. Young Allie: [hesitates] Youn...
I will admit that we as young rebels always wanted fundamentalists to understand our take on their religion, but rarely, if ever, the other way around. The fundamentalists are the real artists. If you saw only a masterpiece of an original painting an...
I think that's an important lesson for young people who want to be artists: You have to find someone who believes in you and who will help you find that time where you don't have to think about a job but just making work. If I didn't have those peopl...
I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.
As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit w...
Young Johnny Sirocco: Oy! Boyo! Young Amsterdam Vallon: Johnny. Young Johnny Sirocco: What you doin', boyo? Young Amsterdam Vallon: There's a battle. The natives against the dead rabbits. Young Johnny Sirocco: Which side are you on? Young Amsterdam V...
Young Allie: Painting. Young Noah: What? Young Allie: You asked me, what I do for me... Young Noah: What now? Young Allie: I love to paint. Young Noah: Really? Young Allie: Mmm-hmm. Most of the time I have all these thoughts bouncin' around in my hea...
[a romantic moment between Noodles and Deborah is interrupted] Young Deborah: Somebody's there! Young Noodles: There ain't nobody. It's Max. Young Deborah: So that's who it was... Young Max: Noodles! Young Deborah: [smiling maliciously] Go on, run. Y...
[Patsy meets Peggy] Young Peggy: What do you want? Young Patsy: Me? Young Peggy: Mama said you were looking for me. Young Patsy: No, the guys told me that... [pause] Young Patsy: What? Young Patsy: I'll come back some other time... [leaves post-haste...
Young Jenny: There's leaches in there. Young Ed Bloom: Did you see that woman? Young Jenny: What did she look like? Young Ed Bloom: Well, she was, uh... Young Jenny: Was she naked? Young Ed Bloom: Yeah, she was. Young Jenny: It's not a woman. It's a ...
I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how ...
