Cooking hasn't yet been accepted as the art form it is. It should be on the level with any of the other art forms.
Being the director - way fancier than 'just' being the writer. People call you 'talent.'
Being called a new artist doesn't bother me at all.
Comics were always the lowest rung on the ladder, front of cloth at the Royal Variety Performance. What that means is you're only there so Take That can set up behind the curtains.
Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.
I am not an artist which is 'in.'
Just because I'm an artist doesn't mean I should be treated differently.
I dislike the word 'emerging artist.' Emerging connotes to me an alligator coming up from the water. I consider all artists to be artists, not rising, emerging, amateur, beginning, but the real thing.
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
Is the biographer an artist who can and should exist on equal terms with the dramatist, fiction writer and poet? The short and robust answer is, 'Certainly not.'
You look up at drama, down at comedy. A singer, looking up is okay. A comic, it's death.
I think you owe it to yourself and you owe it to your status as an artist to be true to who you are.
Photographers aren't artists, for goodness sake.
