I am only an artist, my job is to make drawings not to make sense.
I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.
Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. . . Remember that in order to recover as an artist, you must be willing to be a bad artist. Give yourself permission to be a beginner. By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one
The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young to U2.
The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.
There are so many great artists and most of them are women, but that's good - the more the merrier!
Here the artist is, as it were, an archaeologist, uncovering deeper and deeper strata as he works, recovering not an ancient civilization, but something as yet unborn, unseen, unheard, except by the inner eye, the inner ear. He is not just removing apparent surfaces from some external object, he is removing apparent surface from the Self, revealing his original nature.
When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything
If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.
True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.
It's something I've always loved doing. I'm not one of the artists who comes in and just does my bit. I'm there every second of every day. That's my hands-on situation.
I have never been able to understand the artist whose image never changes.
I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.
I wasn't really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.
The artistic formulae wear thin quickly and yet daily the artist - when developing his own foundation - must enter his own time and the problems of other contemporary artists. Paths cross and the soil of time is starting to be turned.
I always try to make everyone mellow down, make sure everybody's happy. The people I have employed have always kind of stayed with us. A lot of people who come to work for you are artists in their own right. And they want to work for you because they want to pick something up.
If you can inspire a kid that's maybe the best part of being a comic book artist.
I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.
To be an artist means never to avert one's eyes.
Em reminds me of one of my friends from back home. It was just so natural. I forgot in two seconds that he was the biggest-selling artist of the decade. He knows what he’s doing. Me and him mixed [the song] together and he’s not like somebody that’s telling somebody what to do. We were both on the board turning knobs. The atmosphere and the vibe down there was just super cool.