My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.
No, as an artist, you have to be free to explore all the corners of your heart. There are no boundaries.
Crumb was such an influence on me. He's such a visionary, such a great artist, that he so shaped my artistic sensibilities on a certain level that I do owe everything to him. The way I see the world is largely changed by him.
I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life - quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
I know some people are like, 'I'm depressed, and I'm a struggling artist,' and that really works for some people, but that doesn't work for me. I have to be really happy, even when I'm writing my depressing songs; I have to come through that stage before I can write.
I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.
My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.
Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to being a teenager than just boys.
As a make-up artist, you always want to be in a good light, whether you're walking down the street or in a restaurant. It is a very key element to me; you can't apply good make-up in a bad light.
For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people's lives.
I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.
Advances in technology have opened up possibilities in the cultural realm throughout history. I'm intrigued by developments in technology - as an artist it gives me a new palette to explore.
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
It is a joy to be an artist, but it doesn't mean very much unless that work is somehow useful in some way and contributes to others.
I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.
So I don't think of myself as just a musician at all, I think of myself as an artist.
I felt like 'Owl Pharoah,' not everyone understood who I was as an artist.
I went to film school at UT Austin. I learned a lot, and that school's good for puking up all your bad movies early and quick. But ultimately, no one can teach you to be an artist.
It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.
As an artist, you make music. And if you see people who don't know how to market your music, you get involved in it. Otherwise, what you want to accomplish 'gets lost in translation' - no pun intended.
My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.
Being an artist is not easy - I have always said that to the students I have taught over the years. It's a huge sacrifice.
I don't really have control over my direct impression on people anymore. I used to be the person putting my CD in people's hands. But I'm kind of a mainstream artist now. Not by choice.
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
I think as a writer, as an artist, I've grown a lot.
Mixed reactions? Sure, I get them all the time. I'm a Marmite artist.
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.
At the very beginning of my career I felt very strongly about what type of artist I wanted to be.
I went to the University of Minnesota, and I met this amazing artist named Cameron Boothe there who was in World War I, who studied with Hans Hoffman in Munich.
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.
I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.