I could only destroy to build..

The illustrator is essentially a reporter: his subjects come from the outside, lit by a flash. A subject comes to the classical artist from inside, a….

Semper Dowland semper dolens..

Beauty is where you find it..

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life..

The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that minister to it is one of t….

Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle w….

If the artist is necessarily sensitive, does that sensitiveness form in its essence a state constantly liable to shade off into the morbid? Does this….

I know a lot of artists say, `If you want your song on my record, I get 50 per cent' I'd like to kick them in the face..

I remember going to Europe and one makeup artist made me look pink, then she tried to correct it but turned me green! I had to learn how to do my own….

The closer you get to God, the more you become yourself..

I definitely believe that the power of the artist is in the artist's hands now. We're kind of in the wild, wild west of music where labels don't exis….

Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas like….

I love my body. I'm very much OK with it. I don't think artists are ever the ones who have the problem with their weight, it is other people..

It makes my makeup artist's life easier. [Plus] it makes my eyes look a little more open on TV, which is where I happen to work right now..

I change every day. I'm still changing..

When I'm picking songs for an album I always want a song that I can relate to and that I have experienced. There's nothing worse than watching an art….

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public..

Great art can only be created out of love..

When I started, I was an artist; I wanted to be an artist. I became an actor almost by accident. I acted for fifteen years and tried to produce. I lo….

Chosen are those artists who penetrate to the region of that secret place where primeval power nurtures all evolution. There, where the powerhouse of….