For me, there's a tremendous challenge of singing with Faith, who, in my opinion is one of the best singers in the world. She doesn't get enough credit for being as good as she is. She's so beautiful that people look past her singing. But for a journeyman like me to keep up with her is a real tough sprint.
The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry.
It was amazing to be on the map, to be recognised by other artists, and to be so successful.
No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.
Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
I didn't become a commercially successful artist by design, and actually I think that commercially successful just means, if you analyse it, that a lot of people like you. It's become a dirty word, and I don't necessarily think it needs to be.
I always wanted to be an acclaimed artist and to be at the top of my game.
It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.
I have a large number of enthusiastic admirers of my art. And they all sing a hymn in praise from the bottom of their hearts for my art.
The fact that I can go to a museum and I can see one of my dresses there I start to think, 'Crikey!'
My audiences love watching my films.
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end.
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.
Winning the second Pulitzer firmly places me in conversation with this culture.
I feel every artist has a certain amount of fan following.
It's really hard to know why certain artists become famous and others don't.
A film has to be for commercial success as well as earn you respect as an artist. You don't want to do only things that are designed to run commercially, and neither do you want to do things that get acclaim but don't run.
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.
In the last analysis, the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of posterity.
Preserve my artistic creativity and ennoble my artistic fame.
The first impression and a natural one is, that the fine arts have risen or declined in proportion as patronage has been given to them or withdrawn, but it will be found that there has often been more money lavished on them in their worst periods than in their best, and that the highest honours have frequently been bestowed on artists whose names are scarcely now known.
