I know I haven’t always done things the right way. I’m just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.
In the future, I see me as being my own artist and definitely not a ballad singer!
An artist’s responsibility is a lot. I can’t deny and escape from the responsibility. You have to be very guarded about your personal behaviour, future plans, etc.
I was at Pepperdine University in Malibu, and during my sophomore year, I played a dying burn victim on ‘ER.’ The makeup artist put burn makeup all over my body and I couldn’t move or eat for 12 hours. I lost 8 pounds that week.
My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.
Calling a young artist ‘great’ these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.
Kanye West is a brilliant poet and artist. He and I work in a very similar way. We feel the vibration, the power of something, and it inspires us to create, whether it is music or design. It is the same process. Working with Kanye is a joy and great privilege. In 2012, we did collaboration together.
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.
When you’re an artist, you’re working, literally, for the sole purpose of art, and when people discredit you, it’s probably the most disrespectful thing you can do.
The poet, being an imitator like a painter or any other artist, must of necessity imitate one of three objects – things as they were or are, things as they are said or thought to be, or things as they ought to be. The vehicle of expression is language – either current terms or, it may be, rare words or metaphors.
Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn’t make me happy. That’s why I’m working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.
I would hate to be a new artist or writer in town today. But somehow the cream continues to rise. If there’s one who’s great, he just jumps out of the pack like you can’t believe.
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them.
The first thing one must remember about film is that it is a young medium. And it is essential for every responsible artist to cultivate the ground that has been left fallow.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Nothing is a hobby – each discipline is its own world with its own high standards. Of course, every artist has ‘minor works’ that they do, but I don’t think I have any ‘minor disciplines.’
I want to write. I want to direct. I want to produce – I want to inhabit what I think it means to fully be an artist.
Well, from an acting point of view, I bear no relation, I don’t look like Alfred Kinsey at all, but I thought somewhere in my artist’s soul, my actor’s soul, I could capture something of the spirit of the man.
An artist’s creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached my peak in 2004 when I shot ‘Samaria’ and ‘3-Iron’.
There’s this weird game called ‘Blueberry Garden.’ For that game an artist recorded some piano music, but evidently he only had a really terrible microphone on top of the piano, and I really liked it and wanted to experiment with that. So, I made piano recording and really mangled it, and kept experimenting with the technique.
It is hard to separate the art from the artist.
There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people’s attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.
Being the first-ever non-Korean artist at YG, it feels as if I have much more responsibility.
My work ethic is crazy. I’m a producer, an artist, and a video director.
Everything Ticketmaster stands for is what we’re fighting against. They’re just a small cog in a machine where the artist is at the bottom.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
The Term Paper Artist’ represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts.
Sometimes directors come to me when I have to play some horrible thing, scary or hysterical or crying; they ask, ‘Did you study somewhere to be an actress?’ No, this is life. That’s why I think I don’t want to say you need a really bad experience to be a good artist, but bad experiences in your life say something.
The body, in ‘La Belle Noiseuse,’ was the source of the artist’s creativity.
To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
The life of an artist is always reproving what you can do, and I feel like there is still so much more to do. Because I still enjoy it, and I’m not one of those actors who feels like, ‘Oh, I’ve arrived and you should worship at my altar,’ kind of thing.
One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can’t answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.
If you’re an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it’s something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I’ve always found it so fascinating.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I’m this cool, brooding artist. But I’m just having fun with it.
Every day I’m getting shaped and molded. Keepin’ on, being a better artist, and improving on this, improving on that. The more I’m in it, the more I’m practicing and the more I’m advancing.
I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
I always say I’m just eternally grateful for this role because Raven Reyes defies all stereotypes. It’s revolutionary for a character on television, and it’s also extremely creatively liberating as an artist.
An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.
It’s amazing what happens when you’re confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you’re no longer depressed about your sound or what it’s going to be or if people are going to like it.
There’s a tendency to make more money at concerts. That’s from a financial standpoint. Night clubs have a better feel, better contact between the artist and the audience.
The fact is, when you date an artist, you have to know that they’re going to sing about you.
I think the key is basically just your determination. As far an artist is concerned, it’s just about your drive and your dream.
I feel like the job of an artist is to confront their own darkness and their own demons and fears. And I want to make movies that feel human up on the screen. I don’t really relate to dudes wearing spandex and capes.
A visual image in the hand of an artist is merely a tool to trigger a mental image.
An artist’s job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It’s not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
I’m an artist, I’m not an activist.
To an engineer, good enough means perfect. With an artist, there’s no such thing as perfect.
When I say art influences me, which it does, it’s not at all in a literal form. You go and see exhibitions or collections or meet an artist. It’s all a compilation. Every moment, at all times, all this information. Then all this information disappears, and it shows up later in the process.
Show me a Scorsese film, and I’ll show you a movie where he’s taken risks. It’s just his nature. He’s an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.
Pyrex Vision’s first season was, for me, an expression of myself as an artist first, designer second.
As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all we must dare to fail.
I think it’s very dangerous as an artist to be comfortable.
As an artist, you’re used to being in the public eye.
I don’t fall into the category of tortured artist. But it’s not made me more or less anything.
It’s a challenging task for every artist to come up with new ideas. Your last video would have made a benchmark, so the next one should ideally be better than your previous work, so there’s always a competition with myself to be better.
