I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.
At a certain time, an artist needs a big retrospective. At other times, they need a more focused exhibition. It's a different story each time; it's about establishing a dialogue.
When you have celebrity, it's a whole different thing than being an artist.
As an artist, you find at different times you want to do different things.
The role of art in society differs for every artist.
Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist.
My work ethic is crazy. I'm a producer, an artist, and a video director.
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.
No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite.
Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.
The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'
The hardest part of being an artist is discovering what it is you do differently.
Doubtless there are things in nature which have not yet been seen. If an artist discovers them, he opens the way for his successors.
Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
I always found the concept of a tortured artist distasteful.
If the paying public demands naturalistic art, then an artist can use his skills to produce such pictures - but these are to be clearly distinguished from the artist's own art.
What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
I'm more compelled as an artist to see diversification than I am to keep watching an Anglo point of view in storytelling.
I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.
