When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.
I feel the symbolic world is the nub of a problem for an artist.
That's part of the requirement for me to be an artist is that you're trying to share your personal existence with others and trying to illuminate modern life, trying to understand life.
The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.
Even a true artist does not always produce art.
I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.
You must be an artist and a citizen of the world. You must speak to this stuff that's happening. You must do what you can to shine a light on it, help people through it.
The popular mythology of creative genius depends on beloved stereotypes of the artist in youth and old age: the misunderstood upstart who forces us to see the world afresh; and the revered sage who shows us depths of insight attainable only through a lifetime of hard-won experience.
I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your work so much, why deal with where to show, how to show, what to do? If the artist finds the right gallery which respects their work and gives them that freedom to do whatever they want to do, the artist can focus on his work.
But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
Sid Vicious began the age of participation in which everyone could be the artist. Sid proved that you don't have to play well to be the star. You can play badly, or not even at all. I endorsed that attitude. If you can't write songs, no problem - simply steal one and change it to your taste.
The music began, and it was one of those life-changing moments. I saw an artist, Janis Joplin. She was exhilarating. She was vibrating. And she was like no other artist that I had ever seen before... It struck me that hard. Maybe the word is epiphany, when you get that special sensation.
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.
I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.
I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.
But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
If they're not temperamental, I don't want them. It's in the nature of a great artist to be that way.
A writer is an artist. They're creating things out of thin air.
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
I always wanted to be a makeup artist. When I don't get to have my stylist, I do my own makeup!
I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.
I'm a folk artist at heart.
Many art-worlders have an if-you-say-so approach to art: Everyone is so scared of missing out on the next hot artist that it's never clear whether people are liking work because they like it or because other people do. Everyone is keeping up with the Joneses, and there are more Joneses than ever.
That is, an artist who creates lots of work probably experiences prolific days and slower days.
True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.
Being a songwriter is really the base of being an artist, for me.
Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.
