I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
being an artist is a totally godlike thing to do - and I have a god complex.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Everyone should eat hashish, but only once.
God is just another artist, like me.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity, and that includes all kinds of parts.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.