Artist's Work Quotes

Good artists exist in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

The greatest work of an artist is the history of a painting.

I grew up in a house full of musicians, and my mum really taught me that when you listen to an album, you respect that it's somebody's art, and that the B-sides are just as important as the singles, and we should really listen to the album all the way through the way it was intended to be listened to.

The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.

I made a Christmas album a couple of years ago and just put it out on my Web site. It kind of smacked of this flavor. All of the reviews said it was Western swing even when it was Christmas standards.

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

Today, each artist must undertake to invent himself, a lifelong act of creation that constitutes the essential content of the artist's work.

I associated it (the word 'Hourloupe', as title of his longest series of work he made exclusively from 1962 to 1974, fh) by assonance with 'hurler' (to shout), hululer (to howl), loup, (wolf), 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book 'Le Horla', inspired by mental distraction.

Alex Gross is an L.A. artist who has become a friend. His work is really compelling.

The artists of the past who impressed me were the ones who really focused their work.

If I wanted to do 'The Missing Files of Missy Elliott,' I have probably six albums just sitting there.

For me, the aim of making any film like this, any film about an artist, would be to send you back to the art.

There's 40 or 50 songs that nobody's heard that I've done in between albums. There's a whole evolution from Midnite Vultures to Sea Change that's never been released.