As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.
What does it mean to be an American today? The question of that is always pointing at now. It allows someone to say what lens that will be through. A lot of my work has been about identity in different ways. Part of that for me falls into the question of gender identity certainly but also about what it means to be an American theater artist.
I used to think if it wasn't possible to be a family man and a totally dedicated artist, I'd rather be the former. I'm an idealist and a romantic.
Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.
Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists develop their own palette and color sense.
I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
I don't think I've ever made any conscious decision to be a comic artist, but to me there's something quite anarchic about comedy.
There's something exciting and incredibly liberating for an artist to finish something Friday night and the world hears it Friday night instead of eight months later after marketing people and all those assholes get involved.
An artist is a provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one. It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one. That is the realm of the artist.
I would have conversations with European artists. Meaning, people look at my painting and one person would say, "Oh, your painting is just like so-and-so!" Another person would say, "It's just like so-and-so. " But at the end, it's a chain of relay like a marathon. There are so many so-and-so's that eventually it becomes mine. My dialogue was completely European, with the '40s, '50s, '60s artists, but on the exterior side I do big painting. It's post-Pollock. It's current. It's a meeting of the time. The Chinese side just comes out.
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
An artist must be a reactionary
Being an artist is very independent thinking, although there's always going to be a lot of doubt.
What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.
I knew I wanted to be an artist at age 5 or 6. I always drew. At 8, I was permitted to study.
A movie star is not an artist, he is an art object.
I think people in the gay and straight worlds can get a sense of what it means to be an artist.
I see the artist as a participant, a co-producer of reality.
The greatest danger for artists is total freedom.
I have to shut down from other artists, because otherwise I end up giving them my stories.
