Sometimes you feel some artists are doing the same thing that you're doing but in a different field. But they have the same approach. Their method of research and gathering data is the same as yours.
Not being able to touch is sometimes as interesting as being able to touch.
The artist I wanna be like is Michael Jackson. I'll get the house with the roller coaster and the rides and a disco, and I'll invite all my friends and just stay at home.
My gift to my children would be from me to be as honest and true to myself as an artist, and put that out there to the best of my ability.
You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world.
All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!
Sad to hear that George Michael has died. He was an exceptional artist and a strong supporter of LGBT and workers' rights.
The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.
It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.
Im gonna try to pay for CLERKS III myself. As much as I love the crowd-funding model, thats an advancement in indie film that belongs to the next generation of artists. I started on my own dime, and if Im allowed, I should finish on my own dime.
I can't say any artist inspired me, because I'm inspired by the things that go on around me.
An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.
I steal from every single movie ever made. I love it - if my work has anything it's that I'm taking this from this and that from that and mixing them together. If people don't like that, then tough titty, don't go and see it, all right? I steal from everything. Great artists steal; they don't do homages.
There is a subject - there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This impulse exists and has existed among waiters, physicians, coachmen, artists, prostitutes, dishonest officials, soldiers, nobles, crusaders, gamblers, and beggars.
The answers were maddeningly absent—it was like trying to remember a song that you knew made you feel a certain way, without a title, artist, or even a few bars to bring it back.
I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us [artists] different, and long may that continue.
The whole of nature is an endless demonstration of shape and form. It always surprises me when artists try to escape from this.
Artists often think they are going to die before their time. They seem to possess a heightened sense of the passing of the hours.
As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings - not run across the street and ask what my mother thinks.
