The artist is an educator of artists of the future who are able to understand and in the process of understanding perform unexpected - the best - evolutions.
I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a work of art not the medium. It is the artist in photography that gives form to content by a distillation of ideas, thought, experience, insight and understanding.
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what being a writer says to me.
A great chef is an artist that I truly respect.
I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.
Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.
Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it.
You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Besides me wanting to be an artist, I wanted to be a movie star.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.
No, my work does not reflect my sexual preferences, it reflects the fact that I feel total freedom as an artist.