It's really easy to project this whole ideology of what being an artiste is, and I'm just not down with intellectualizing it. I just think, if you feel like doing something, then do it.
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I make a good living and I've never looked at myself as being an artiste.
As an artist, you have to do what you feel passionate about. It has to be something you can connect with.
I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.
Every now and then, I feel terribly uncomfortable with what I'm working on, and then I think maybe I am an artist. I'm not very articulate about it, but I do know that you have to follow your gut.
Part of your job as an artist is to push yourself and make sure your creative juices are flowing.
It's true that there are people who live the idea of being an artist, as opposed to the idea of making art.
Artists today think of everything they do as a work of art. It is important to forget about what you are doing - then a work of art may happen.
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.
I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.
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