Risk is what separates the artist from the artisan.
I certainly see myself more as a craftsman than as an artist.
I consider myself more a craftsman than an artist.
I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans.
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.
I am an artisan. I only became an artist when people watch what I do. That is when it becomes art.
The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.
I have never been sorry to see my sets being struck, provided they are well photographed. They're not works of art but part of making a film.
