I wanna be forever young.

I just like to choose projects that will allow me as an artist to make my art.

writer”.

Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive...

I appreciate a book intended to be judged by its cover. The insincere readers are often weeded out while the sincere readers remain curious.

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you’ve wandered for to find the home of your spirit…

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

Now let’s talk about dreams. Yes. Dreams. I believe that dreams are one of the best thing in the world. It’s so powerful. Because of people dreaming; things are being done and things are being...

I’m an artist; I love everyone.

There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or...

Remember it all, every insult, every tear. Tattoo it on the inside of your mind. In life, knowledge of poisons is essential. I’ve told you, nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.

Where the Divine and the Human Meet” shows how important it is to meet the world with the creativity of an artist, particularly in these uncertain times: “What do we do with chaos? Creativity has...

The creative strength is good enough and deep enough to bring itself to flower and to grow in spite of this sickness.

artist are those who express simply by words of their experience

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist – I’m happy to see the work.

Nobody should ever receive more money for a work of art than the artist who produced it.

A fi artist, în ochii lui însemna înainte de toate să fii supus. Supus unor mesaje misterioase, imprevizibile, care, în lipsa de ceva mai bun și în absența oricărei credințe religioase, se cuveneau calificate drept...

Curiosity is the main energy…

We feel that in the future, groups are going to have to offer much more than just a pop show. They’ll have to offer a well-presented theatre show.

Sometimes I think your intellect can get in your way as an actor or an artist. When you come from a world of improv and comedy, you’re able to let it flicker and fall out.

But an artist, he realized. Or rather so-called artist. Bohemian. That’s closer to it. The artistic life without the talent.

How did Adam do it? He seemed to be able to look past Miles’s weirdness and insecurities and awkwardness to see Miles, himself, what he was-whatever he was-inside.

I wish I was this dark genius artist – like Richard Pryor or something.

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...

Ordinary persons, he said, smiling, found no differences between men. The artist found them all.

Writing and art are my lovers

I don’t care who’s playing. Even if it’s my favorite artist, I’m probably not gonna go and see him.

I enjoy poetry where I can talk as bizarre as I please, but theology or philosophy, I always respect the truth by taking it a step further.

Sometimes people ask me, ‘You do stand-up?’ I try explaining what I do, and I don’t think they really get it. So: ‘Yeah, I do stand-up.’ I wish there was one word to express what...

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing – it’s what every artist probably hopes for.

From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves.

My hands are flowing like sunlight. The shapes and colors are astounding. I don’t understand these images that are empowering me. My brush touches the canvas like photons to the earth, and a new world...

New York is an incredible place to be an artist, because there are so many incredible people, and… it’s all about the people that you get exposed to.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

I’m an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don’t imagine I’ll abandon that completely.

Look at this one.” I picked up a small painting of a man with dark hair and a short, dark beard. He wore a loose shirt, cobalt blue, unbuttoned at the top, showing a prominent,...

The function of the artist in a disturbed society is to give awareness of the universe, to ask the right questions, and to elevate the mind.

Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.” ― Pablo Picasso

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

here it was the whole world wrapped inside my armsAnd I let it all slip away

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent...

I’m an artist, I’m not an activist.

The other day, when I was deciding where to place a mountain range, how to make a river’s flow detour around underground stalactite caves, and what precise color to give the sky at sunset, I...

Every true artist is at war with the world.

Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic.

I want to go and see things as a fan again. I am a fan, but I can’t remember what it feels like to be a fan anymore. Because I’ve become an artist. I’ve become...

When the woman you live with is an artist, every day is a surprise. Clare has turned the second bedroom into a wonder cabinet, full of small sculptures and drawings pinned up on every inch...