I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest... →
Patti Smith
What a model of an artist was for me was an artist who worked. Picasso was the ultimate model, because the work ethic he had.
When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
The moment of creative impulse is what an artist gives you. You look at a Pollock, and it can't give you the tools to do a painting like that... →
There is actually no such thing as an Artist type. 'Artist' is just an economic designation, a box you tick on a form. We are all people, and... →
Russell Smith
The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how... →
Zadie Smith
Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a... →
Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
Robert Smithson
You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you... →
Jimmy Smits
As an artist, you want to stretch. That's the only way you're going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I've done... →
Jurnee Smollett