Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings.
As an artist, I've been very fortunate.
That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects. But I don't do that anymore. I just want to be off the cuff and honest.
There are a lot of people who can now see me as an artist for the first time.
If I could have any artist's work on my sitting room wall it would probably be by Van Gogh or Picasso.
I remember taking my makeup off at a Saint Laurent shoot, and I was dragging it across my eye. The makeup artist was like, 'Don't do that to your skin! Don't pull it like that!' And I'm like, 'Really?'
A revised schedule is to business what a new season is to an athlete or a new canvas to an artist.
Law breaking, graffiti artist, dumb jock that I am, I'm pretty socially conscious.
It betrays hubris on the part of the artist to think his medium is limiting him, and I think we all recognize this.
I liked the name Saadiq and didn't want to be known as an artist as Raphael Wiggins.
I've dated the sweet mama's boy, the musician rocker, the struggling artist - basically a lot of people without jobs.
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.
I'm an artist that's attracted to a specific way of seeing and a way of being.
David Fincher is a longtime friend. As a director, my wife had worked with him as a makeup artist when he would do Madonna videos years before, and his child and my oldest child were in preschool together, so we're kind of dad-friends through that, too.
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
An artist don't make you bigger than life - being that person that can break artists can make you bigger than life.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
Most of the time, as an artist, I can be self-indulgent, fulfilling my own impulses, embracing imagery that contains poetry on my own terms, without immediate regard to an audience or the particular placement of my finished work.
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.
Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
Every writer from Montaigne to William S. Burroughs has pasted and cut from previous work. Every artist, whether it's Warhol or, you know, Dangermouse or whoever.
I was exposed to the arts, but there was no one in my family who was an artist.
The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art.
If you look at any creative person's work, you can see bits and pieces of their influences. That's what an artist does.
The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.
I've never read a screenplay in advance. You trust the artist.
One must not believe any of those mythologies about oneself as an artist.
Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.
Sixteen million colors in your palette are hard for any artist, especially a beginner, to turn down.
The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there, as in an open book, all the inner truth.
