It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists but simply announce that they are don't have the patience to make art.

Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in art as in politics patience counts as much as revolution.

I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside it's a painful difficult search within.

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

I think people like to see the lives of artists that are legends. They always go through the dark periods and I think just as humans we like to see that and them coming out of it. I love those kinds of movies.

If the goal is to get the best artists actors and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.

I think a lot of people do big movies not because they are talented artists but because they can function in the circumstances.

At one time there were voiceover artists now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.

In the seventies a group of American artists seized the means not of production but of reproduction. They tore apart visual culture at a time of no money no market and no one paying attention except other artists. Vietnam and Watergate had happened everything in America was being questioned.