“Always the artist, never the superstar.”

“An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.”

“That is the best story he could find in his life, never mind if it's the truest: an artist's duty is always to tell the best story.”

“To me, one of the best things in the world is that sublime moment when a writer, artist, or musician manages to express something you’ve always felt but never articulated, or at least never quite so beautifully.”

“You are born an artist or you are not. And you stay an artist, dear, even if your voice is less of a fireworks. The artist is always there.”

“At the age of ten, twenty, a hundred, very young, a little older, and very old, an artist is always an artist. Isn't he better at some times, some moments, than at others? Never impeccable, since he is a living, human being?”

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

“A great artist is never poor.”

“Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists.”

“An artist has gotta be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's at somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming.”