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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

Artistic credentials are au courant in the important business of being seen as cultured, elegant and, of course, stupendously rich.

Anybody who is in freelance work, especially artistically, knows that it comes with all the insecurity and the ups and downs. It's a really frightening life.

In the commercial theater, I've been pretty fortunate. The producers that I've worked with have allowed me to define the artistic integrity, the artistic limits of the work.

I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.

I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.

I am uncompromising to the point of huge dissension in the studio. And it's served me very well. My theory and my philosophy is, 'Compromise breeds mediocrity.' Obviously, you have to pick your battles, and the more success an artist has, the more they want to be involved in their own career, which is not necessarily a good thing.

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.

I look for individuality in the artisans I work with for CoutureLab; a loving relationship with the product and care in the construction, along with the story behind it, make couture desirable to consumers looking for something that cannot be mass-produced.

We try to buy from living artists because we love to understand why they are painting or sculpting and get into their minds.