Being beautiful can be a curse, especially if you want to be an artist and create.

I grew up with an artist father, and my parents' friends were also mainly artists or writers, so he connects what I do with his example.

Really it was the first time in my life that I recognised that acting is, I'm just going to say it, I am an artist, I have to do this, I have to do this.

Bruce Lee was an artist and, like him, I try to go beyond the fundamentals of my sport. I want the public to see a knockout in the making.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all.

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

I've just begun to dare to think I perhaps am a bit of an artist.

The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

I'm an artist and I can draw very well. I'm amazed that everybody can't draw well because I can do it so effortlessly.

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.