I'm more hungry now than I was 11 years ago. Which is great because I see a lot of artists that have been out for a long period of time. They get kind of fat.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are many artists who feel that in order to move forward in their careers, they have to lose a drastic amount of weight.
In the 20 long, hungry years between my late teens and late 30s I bought in to virtually every new diet and/or exercise regime that hoved into view, particularly at this most vulnerable time for those of us prone to poor body image - a new year.
I'm hungry. Always have been, my whole career.
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
I've thought maybe of getting younger artists out doing stuff, like I used to do a lot of. I don't wanna do it day in and day out like I used to, but I still wanna do it.
I feed on art more than I ever do on photographs. I can admire photography, but I wouldn't go to it out of hunger.
You look at most artists, the arc of their career, there's a definite decline at the end. And that decline could set in at any time. In your 50s, or your 60s and 70s if you're lucky. Time goes by fast, and you've got to be busy all the time.
Many artists give up after a while.
All artists are people of growth. It's like food, you take the good and leave the rest.
We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.