Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators.

The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.

Every artist was first an amateur.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel - not the way others think you should feel.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals.

I'm definitely a pop artist at heart.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.