It's much more liberating as a artist to feel like you can approach each page and each panel with the way that inspires you the most. I think the thing that bogs down a lot of artists is that you're kind of stuck drawing in a style you've developed.
There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.
And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.
I sometimes look at the careers of other. . . I guess I could call them contemporaries or maybe close artists; you know, the 4 or 5 guys who go to New York City and get a loft and work together and use each other as models and that sort of thing and wait for years and years to get married. Maybe I just wasn't that definite.
Gift to the creative artist: positive images in, positive images out. On the other hand, garbage in, garbage out.
There was a long time where I was an "artist" in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
As an artist, environment has a lot of impact on choices, and these choices can change by changing your location.
I was selling a piece of my art on eBay from The Escapist, which was an adaptation of The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, and the person who bought it was Alan Heinberg, one of the executive producers of the show and was a huge fan of my work and asked if I'd be interested in maybe being the ghost artist for Seth. It clicked and I could relate to Seth's plight on the show. It became really easy to fill in his shoes, and people really grabbed onto it; they really dug that sort of very minor sub-plot in the show.
You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man, the animal, the hungry, insatiable lover. No woman has ever granted me all the privileges I need - and you, why you sing out so blithely, so boldly, with a laugh even - yes, you invite me to go ahead, be myself, benture anything. I adore you for that. That is where you are truly regal, a woman extraordinary. What a woman you are! I laugh to myself now when I think of you. I have no fear of your femaleness.
My greatest accomplishment is the freedom for doing what I want to do with my music. . . I love my freedom so I'm happy I am a free artist.
A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.
Film is the only art form whose raw materials are so horrendously expensive that the artist cannot afford to buy them for himself.
Artists need to express.
I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future.
Its very important to me to be respected by true talented artists and great minds than by the masses who need to be told how to think. Its more important for me to do things that are spiritually rewarding because that wealth is what makes me feel alive. I do not touch projects that do not yield personal fulfillment, or put me in a field with talent that is over-measured. You wont find me where there is no Truth. And Im not one to jump on any bandwagons or join a gold rush without a purpose. Id rather create my own projects and grow my own fields.
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. . . . Singing is an acting role within itself. . . I've gone through a lot of trial and error to find what works and what doesn't. With that comes an understanding of how to offer the same opportunities to other artists. . . . In my opinion the world is in need of real soul music. . . . I'm a flamboyant type of guy, a cooler version of Liberace. . . . I'm a younger Morgan Freeman. . . . I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
Art is a war - between ourselves and the forces of self-sabotage that would stop us from doing our work. The artist is a warrior.
I met Kaz in the mid 1980s when we invited him and other artists to the Ojai Foundation with Thich Nhat Hanh. I felt an instant connection with him, and since that time we have collaborated on many projects and have become good friends and allies in the work of nonviolence.
As an artist, it is great to be able to market yourself to people who don't know you, and people who do.
I'm a martial artist. I've boxed all my life. I work out. I studied Hwarangdo, which is a Korean style.