The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.
My parents were always doubtful about my making a living as an artist. Even when I was up for the Turner Prize, my mum suggested I apply for a curator's job.
My mother is an escaped farm girl from North Dakota and a self-taught artist and painter.
The biggest threat to any politician is an artist. Comedians unleashed can do a great deal of damage. David Letterman can do more damage than any Republican assault by Newt Gingrich.
'Deadwood' was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything I've ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.
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.
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
I'm nothing else but an artist, I'm sure, and delighted to be.
I never really wanted to be an artist. I just really wanted to write songs. But, of course, I can't get placement unless I demo the songs.
Growing older, boundaries between the artist and the listener are something that nowadays should be completely demolished.
Voyeurism is a director's job description. It's an artist's, too.
It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and we are all creative.
A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
Pyrex Vision's first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.
I'm a very message-oriented artist, and each song has a totally different meaning.
