My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.
That freedom that Picasso afforded himself, to be an artist in a huge number of ways, seems to be a huge psychological liberation.
Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.
The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.
As a citizen, hopefully I'm humanist. As an artist, I'm free.
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled.
My older sister achieved her dream of being an artist. She's an illustrator living in Manhattan.
The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.
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.
I love color. When I paint, I use a lot of color. I love art that has a vibrancy of color and compositions. I adore the Impressionists, and I'm influenced strongly by them as a self-taught artist.
The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.
As an artist, you're just observing the world around you. So much is overwhelming and it's all so inescapable that it can't all speak to general cultural statements.
Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
