Artists work best alone. Work alone.

For me, that's one of the best validations as an artist. To have a stranger come up to you and say that something you've created and put out there in the world has had some sort of impact on other people's lives.

We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars.

Like any artist without an art form, she became dangerous.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.

What is an artist? For every thousand people there's nine hundred doing the work, ninety doing well, nine doing good, and one lucky bastard who's the artist.

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

I'm a creative guy, artistically with graphics.

Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

What an absurd torture for the artist to know that an audience identifies him with a work that, within himself, he has moved beyond and that was merely a game played with something in which he does not believe.

Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.

At 62, I remain clean and sober and my ponytail remains erect.

I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.

I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.

When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.

Here's something pompous - you take your day and artistically create it, so every moment has an artistic flavor.

All any artist can do is please themselves.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why.

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.