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.
I always thought being an artist was a lazy job. I was wrong.
Everyone always comes to one point in their life as an artist where you can either let your heart guide you or your ego.
There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.
I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace! Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.
One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
I thought 'The Artist' was a perfect way to find a good balance. The artistic challenge is obvious because the film is black-and-white and its silent, but I did my best to make the movie accessible and easy to watch. I really don't want to make elitist movies. I really try hard to work for the audience. Audiences are smart. They get everything.
To the artist there is never anything ugly in nature.
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
I wanted Kimi to be a Japanese record with a Japanese title. I wanted it to be for them. They appreciate things on a different level, and take their art very seriously - that's special if you're an artist.
My makeup artist, Tonya Brewer, taught me the importance of moisturizing daily. Hydration is a must if you want pretty, dewy skin - which I love.
Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game.
A critic is not a creative artist, is a commenter, a midwife of creativity, but not creative himself.
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
The artist in me cries out for design.
There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
I have the sensation of doing something good for people, more than being a trendy artist or a successful artist.
I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.
I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.
Every art expression is rooted fundamentally in the personality and temperament of the artist.
It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got.
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
The Internet is the greatest tool for any artist to have interaction with any audience.
Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist enters the U.S. market, I would like him to think, 'There was an artist called Rain who succeeded in the U.S. market.' This is my dream.
The truth is an artist like me who doesn't get the type of promotion that we see more commercial artists receive, and especially in this climate of the music business, you have to be creative about how you promote yourself.
What I really think about Banksy is I think he's a genius; he's a great artist, and I like his stuff. But he's got to accept it if, from time to time, someone will need to paint over his work.
Any director or writer or artist has the right to do what they want to do - freedom of expression is something I celebrate.
Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.
You're always in a box, and you're an escape artist if you do what I do - or if you're a creative person, period. You build your box, and then you escape from it. You build another one, and you escape from it. That's ongoing.
I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat; Bob Marley got heat; Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
When people ask how have I kept on top, I have to say with the help of every photographer, make-up artist and hairdresser I've ever worked with.
