Quotes About Artist

When I first met Big, we were both at a 'Bad Boy' family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn't that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn't know that was him. He said he didn't even know I was an artist on 'Bad Boy.'

That's true, because I'm a photographer now.

I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer.

My father, an architectural photographer, was an incurable tinkerer, maker and mender.

I've been a photographer all these years... I haven't been in my own darkroom for 10 years.

I am an artist first and a photographer second.

I'm just a photographer, not a movie star.

I've done a lot of commercial work. I'm the complete photographer.

As an artist, illustrator, and photographer, most of my daily work was formed around the Art & Entertainment business, which was about packaging ideas that looked like they were crafted as artist ideas. In the distributed products, my artist credit was hidden inside the package of the artist or entertainment personality.

I used to be a photographer - and now I'm some kind of digital photographic artist.

I am someone who takes pleasure in exploring the full scale of the medium photography. I am a photographer.

People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.

I'm not really a pianist.

I've heard 'Piano Man.' That song is pretty cool.

But when you hear the complete album, it gets dark, really straight-up rock, with some really intimate moments with just me and the piano. It's not completely me because there are parts of me that aren't on that song, that are on the album.

Paul Sinha is a very good piano player and singer.

The bohemian artist who exists only for his art, it's a myth. OK, it might have been true for Giacometti, but it certainly wasn't for Picasso or Mozart.

The most evil person I ever met was a toss-up between Pablo Picasso and the publisher-crook Robert Maxwell.

I think Picasso was, without doubt, the greatest portraitist of the 20th century, if not any other century.

I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.

For me, acting is all about the aesthetic. I just want to keep honing my craft. Not that I'm taking myself too seriously, but every artist should consider himself Picasso. Otherwise, you're doing yourself an injustice.

The first guitar I ever picked up was an acoustic black Fender, so it makes perfect sense that Elias plays Fender guitars. As far as details, it's simple; Elias and Fender have a great relationship.

It's almost not safe to be an artist, the way everybody is randomly picking people to feud with.

When I started picking out music for myself, I was a hip-hop kid. DMX, The Roots, Outkast, people like that.