Back when I was in college, people used to talk about the alienation of the artist, not ever quite fitting in any place.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.
I think people are intolerant of artists.
I just feel like we as a human race tend to fear that which we don't understand. It's cause for a lot of bad things and bad behavior to exist on the planet. Artists have a way of touching people and changing minds in a way that sometimes other mediums don't.
I think that to explore the uncomfortable and the politically incorrect is the job of the artist.
The works of previous artists have come from their own experiences or insights but haven't given the experience itself. They had set themselves up as a sort of interpreter to the layman... Our interest is in a form where you realize that the media are just perception.
I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.
I discovered early that as an artist there was absolutely nothing wrong with being surrounded by people who were not dedicated to your field.
I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.