The people who are competing business-wise out there want what other successful labels and artists have. I don't want what they have I want my own path my own sound my own identity. Record labels care nothing about identity or artistic freedom they want good business.

Artists are notoriously snooty and suspicious of anything coming from the business community.

The business side of film has goofed up so many things but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if as I always say you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.

People assume that all artists make for terrible business people but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

I'm not a driven businessman but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

The best thing commercially which is the worst artistically by and large is the most successful.

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef ' actors musicians artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live do it!

There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them and they cannot be silent if they would and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Beauty like truth is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

For two thousand years the Church has guided the development of music carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character which gives this simple life where all art is unknown something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

This is the artist then life's hungry man the glutton of eternity beauty's miser glory's slave.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty how many ghastly mortifying missteps how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment how partial all accomplishment is how incomplete?

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

But every great scripture whether Hebrew Indian Persian or Chinese apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

I find beauty in the grotesque like most artists.