But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

Men, when they fight in movies, it's a very different style. Harrison Ford was so cool when he had the whip, and Bruce Lee was such an artist that you couldn't take your eyes off of him.

I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

The artist is seen like a producer of commodities, like a factory that turns our refrigerators.

I believe that the artist's involvement in the capitalist structure is disadvantageous to the artist and forces him to produce objects in order to live.