The partnership over the 28 years we had the company afforded him the opportunity to experiment and live his life as an artist and a label honcho and do what he wanted to do. It afforded me the same opportunity.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

I am an artist and a political being as well.

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

The cultured man is an artist, an artist in humanity.

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.