Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page.

When a young artist is ready, one has to bring him into the limelight.

A great artist is never poor.

Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.

In fact, the element of play has an important role in my life, and I think that should be the case in the life of every artist. Our life is occupied with playing, whether we play an instrument or a role.

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

Drawing is giving a performance; an artist is an actor who is not limited by the body, only by his ability and, perhaps, experience.

To give a body and a perfect form to one's thought, this - and only this - is to be an artist.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.